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In the fight against the communism in history, only Codreanu didn't give up. He was a new kind of Jesus
James Joyce
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Eamon de Valera
All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.




John McCain
America is the greatest force for good in the history of the world.
Margaret Mead
Throughout history, females have picked providers for mates. Males pick anything.
Jawaharlal Nehru | History Quotes
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Lucien Levy-Bruhl
The primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind, and not a stage in its historical development.
Oscar Wilde
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
George Henry Lewes
The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".
Kenneth Clark
Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
Henry James | History Quotes
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.




Hermann Goring
We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
Vladimir Lenin
History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.
Lucian
In history, nothing fabulous can be agreeable.
Marshall McLuhan
The anguish of the third dimension is given its first verbal manifestation in poetic history in King Lear.
Isaac Asimov | History Quotes
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
Christopher Hitchens
[I am persuaded by] the materialist conception of history.
Jim Goad
I can’t appreciate someone else’s history if I’m forced to reject and feel ashamed about mine.
Edward R. Murrow
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Jim Goad
Written history, like the missionary position, is an act executed from the top looking down.


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