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James Fenton | History Quotes
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in its origins,its transmission was oral.
Heydar Aliyev
Nakhchivan has an ancient history of statehood. This is Azerbaijan’s statehood history.
S. M. Stirling
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James Branch Cabell
The Terrible and Marvellous History of Manuel Pig-Tender That Afterwards Was Named Manuel the Redeemer.
Dag Hammarskjold
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals.
Marshall McLuhan
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.
Vladimir Lenin
History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.
Edward Gibbon
The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
Tom Robbins | History Quotes
Nostalgia's nice enough in little bitty doses, it puts personal peach fuzz on the hard ass of history.




Steve Maraboli
Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. Instead, face it and free yourself.
Henry St John
They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.
Ronald Reagan
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Sir Walter Raleigh
[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
Stephen R. Lawhead | History Quotes
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
Stephen Covey
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
Joan Robinson
There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.
Mark Riebling
The history of the CIA brims with inquiries that cowed our spies and ruined their careers.


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