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Robert A. Heinlein | History Quotes
The best things in history are accomplished by people who get “tired of being shoved around.”
James A. Garfield
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
William Hazlitt
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.




Robert A. Heinlein
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — i.e., none to speak of.
Henry Parry Liddon
The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.
Tony Buzan | History Quotes
The world is historically mentally illiterate.
Emil Cioran
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Gustavo Gutierrez
The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.
Ad Reinhardt
The artists is responsible for his history and his nature, his history is part of his nature.
Roger Federer
Federer is the best player in history, no other player has ever had such quality.
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.




John Maynard Keynes
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
Joseph Heller
"The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth. Don't you know history?"
Heydar Aliyev
Nakhchivan has a great and rich history. It gave the great contributions to the world and universal culture.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.
Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.
Anatole Broyard
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
Janio Quadros
Lincoln was one of history's greatest men, but Americans are not like him. He was a lonely exception.
James Joyce
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Mark Riebling
The history of the CIA brims with inquiries that cowed our spies and ruined their careers.


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