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Ralph Waldo Emerson | History Quotes
There is properly no history; only biography.
Karl Marx
To discover the various use of things is the work of history.
Arthur Kemp
[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.




Henry Parry Liddon
The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is.
Robert Penn Warren | History Quotes
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
John Banville
Possibly the most perverse decision in the history of the award.
Benito Mussolini
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Shashi Tharoor
The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
H. L. Mencken
Historian — An unsuccessful novelist.
"Peace through Strength," surely history's most exploded nostrum.




Stephen Spender
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Barbara Tuchman
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Thomas Carlyle
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Steve Maraboli
No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?
James Clerk Maxwell | History Quotes
Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.
Camille Paglia
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
Kenneth Waltz
To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
David Cross
James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.
Ronald Reagan
In the Reagan years, more federal debt was added than in the entire prior history of the United States.


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