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Saki | History Quotes
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
John McCain
America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world.
E. Lee Spence
My drug of choice is historical research.




Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Stephen R. Lawhead
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
Russell T Davies | History Quotes
Because it's the best idea ever invented in the history of the world!
George Peter Nanos
He was the worst thing to happen to Los Alamos National Laboratory in its entire 63 year history.
T. B. Joshua
Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.
John Maynard Keynes
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Tony Buzan
The world is historically mentally illiterate.
Martin Buber | History Quotes
The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.




Mark Riebling
The history of the CIA brims with inquiries that cowed our spies and ruined their careers.
Auguste Comte
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
Walter Benjamin
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
Mignon McLaughlin
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
Ronald Reagan | History Quotes
In the Reagan years, more federal debt was added than in the entire prior history of the United States.
Gustavo Gutierrez
The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.
Barbara Tuchman
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Nikita Khrushchev
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will dig you in. (We will bury you.)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Patriotism ruins history.


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