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Wystan Hugh Auden | History Quotes
Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.
John Avlon
Politics is history in the present tense.
Harry Turtledove
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.




Muhammad Ali Jinnah
One of the most extraordinary men in history.
Joseph Stalin
History shows that there are no invincible armies and that there never have been.
James Clerk Maxwell | History Quotes
Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.
Elie Wiesel
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Tommy Lee
I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.
Stephanie Zacharek
This sprawling epic is as lively as a natural history museum diorama.
Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
John Updike | History Quotes
There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.




Edwin Lefevre
History repeats itself all the time on Wall Street.
Edward R. Murrow
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Bill Johnson
Forgiveness rewrites our history! p.54
Lucian
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
Jacques Barzun
I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.
Kanye West
"Make black history every day, I don't need a month."
Benazir Bhutto
It is not a sad day ... it is the darkest, gloomiest day in the history of this country.


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