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Myth therefore seems to choose history, rather than be chosen by it.
Oscar Wilde
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Norman Cousins
History is a vast early warning system.




William Lyon Mackenzie King
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
Lucian
In history, nothing fabulous can be agreeable.
Mark Riebling | History Quotes
The history of the CIA brims with inquiries that cowed our spies and ruined their careers.
Anonymous
History shows that life is the cheapest commodity.
Roger Federer
Federer is the best player in history, no other player has ever had such quality.
Walter Benjamin
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.
Celia Green | History Quotes
The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.




William Bill Kristol
Very few wars in American history were prepared better or more throughly than this one by this president.
Richard Brautigan
All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
Zinedine Zidane
Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.
Kenneth Clark
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
Kanye West | History Quotes
"Make black history every day, I don't need a month."
Edmund Cooper
There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history.
Laurence Sterne
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Simon Bolivar
Jesus Christ, Don Quixote and I: three greatest fools of history.
Pieter Willem Botha
Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.


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