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History Quotes - random - 100+ quotes


James Fenton | History Quotes
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in its origins,its transmission was oral.
Czeslaw Milosz
He who invokes history is always secure.
The dead will not rise to witness against him.
Henry Parry Liddon
The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements.




Marshall McLuhan
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
Christopher Hitchens
[I am persuaded by] the materialist conception of history.
Harry Turtledove | History Quotes
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is properly no history; only biography.
William O. Douglas
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
Emil Cioran
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
Roger Federer
We are witnessing history. This is the most dominant athlete on planet earth today.
Adolf Hitler | History Quotes
Politics is history in the making.




Carl Hayden
No man in Senate history has wielded more influence with less oratory.
Thomas Hardy
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
E. O. Wilson
In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
Sebouh Chouldjian
The loss of historical memory is restored in the very place where one has lost it.
Wallace Stevens | History Quotes
All history is modern history.
Edward Gibbon
The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
Larry Niven
8) History never repeats itself.
Celia Green
The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.
Eugene V. Debs
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.


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