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James Joyce | History Quotes
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Henry James
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Thomas Hardy
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.




Wendell Berry
We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
John Banville
Possibly the most perverse decision in the history of the award.
Benito Mussolini | History Quotes
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Jose Saramago
Ah, who will write the history of what might have been?
Czeslaw Milosz
He who invokes history is always secure.
The dead will not rise to witness against him.
James A. Garfield
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield | History Quotes
The lesson of History is rarely learned by the actors themselves.




Sir Thomas Browne
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
Fred Astaire
The history of dance on film begins with Astaire.
Joseph Heller
"The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth. Don't you know history?"
Skye Jethani
History has shown syncretism to the culture is a chronic ailment of the church.
Bill Clinton | History Quotes
I felt like a pickle stepping into history.
Stephen Spender
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus
Harry S. Truman
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
Charles de Montesquieu
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.


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