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Elie Wiesel | History Quotes
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Adolf Hitler
Politics is history in the making.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.




Colum McCann
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.
Arthur M. Schlesinger
The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
Thomas L. Friedman | History Quotes
The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.
Felix Frankfurter
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
Michael E. Brown
I may go down in history as the guy who killed Pluto.
Ronald Reagan
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Robert A. Heinlein
The best things in history are accomplished by people who get “tired of being shoved around.”
Pieter Willem Botha | History Quotes
Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.




Zinedine Zidane
Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.
Norman Cousins
History is a vast early warning system.
Benjamin Disraeli
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Noam Chomsky
There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.
Sir Thomas Browne | History Quotes
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.
Celia Green
The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.
Edwin Lefevre
Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.
Djuna Barnes
Destiny and history are untidy.
George Henry Lewes
The history of the race is but that of the individual "writ large".


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