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Penn Jillette | History Quotes
It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.
Robert Walpole
Anything but history, for history must be false.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.




Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
Abraham Lincoln
Now let it be written in history and on Mr. Lincoln's tombstone: "He died an unbeliever."
Jose Rizal | History Quotes
Each one writes history according to his convenience.
Franz Kafka
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.
Larry Wall
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
Karl Marx
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Oscar Wilde
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.




John Henry Cardinal Newman
To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.
Friedrich Schlegel
Der Historiker ist ein rückwärtsgekehrter Prophet.
H. L. Mencken
Historian — An unsuccessful novelist.
Kurt Vonnegut
George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.
Mignon McLaughlin | History Quotes
The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.
Aldo Leopold
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
Walter Benjamin
History breaks down in images not into stories.
Glenn Beck
The hottest year in global [sic] history was 1934.
Stephen Spender
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.


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