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Viktor Yushchenko | History Quotes
The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
Steve Turner
In the whole history of the sea, there is little to equal the wonderful behavior of these humble players.
Robert Penn Warren
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past.




H. G. Wells (Herbert George)
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
Alberto Manguel
A book brings its own history to the reader.
Patriotism ruins history.
Henry James
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
John Maynard Keynes
Ideas shape the course of history.
Abba Eban
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Camille Paglia
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
Thomas Jefferson | History Quotes
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.




Marshall McLuhan
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
Moses I. Finley
Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.
Rabindranath Tagore
The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,
unobscured by the dust of history.
John McAfee
History is sympathetic to its authors.
George Saintsbury | History Quotes
Historians may lie, but History cannot.
Plutarch
These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.
Charles de Montesquieu
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
Alexander Pope
Histories are more full of Examples of the Fidelity of dogs than of Friends.
Jorge Luis Borges
Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.


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