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Oscar Wilde | History Quotes
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Simon Bolivar
The three greatest idiots in history, have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and myself.
Robert Walpole
Anything but history, for history must be false.




John Maynard Keynes
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
Jawaharlal Nehru
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Edward Said | History Quotes
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
Oscar Wilde
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Arthur Kemp
[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.
Theodor Mommsen
History is neither written nor made without love or hate.
Frank Zappa
The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic ... in terms of music history.
Moses I. Finley | History Quotes
Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.




Friedrich von Schiller
World history is the world's court.
James Fenton
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in its origins,its transmission was oral.
Henry James
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Patriotism ruins history.
Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
Shaun Ryder
Do I think the Mondays will go down in musical history? I couldn't give a fuck!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is properly no history; only biography.
Thomas Jefferson
History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.
Fiona Apple
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.


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