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Marshall McLuhan | History Quotes
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Henry James
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Saki
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.




John Updike
There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.
Rabindranath Tagore
The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,
unobscured by the dust of history.
Walter Benjamin | History Quotes
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
Kenneth Waltz
To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
Stephen Spender
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Benjamin Disraeli
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Jacques Ellul
I describe a world with no exit, convinced that God accompanies man throughout his history.
Tom Robbins | History Quotes
Nostalgia's nice enough in little bitty doses, it puts personal peach fuzz on the hard ass of history.




Henry Miller
The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.
Anatole Broyard
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
Hermann Goring
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
George William Curtis
While we read history we make history.
Marshall McLuhan | History Quotes
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
Auguste Comte
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
Jefferson Davis
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
Shaun Ryder
Do I think the Mondays will go down in musical history? I couldn't give a fuck!
Catherine of Aragon
Nature wronged her in making her a woman. But for her sex she could have surpassed all the heros of history.


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