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Gustavo Gutierrez | History Quotes
The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.
Hastings Ismay
On the w:Festival of Britain, "We are consciously and deliberately determined to make history."
Djuna Barnes
Destiny and history are untidy.




Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
David Cross
James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.
Harry Turtledove | History Quotes
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
Fred Astaire
The history of dance on film begins with Astaire.
Koenraad Elst
The neologism ādivāsī constitutes one of the most successful disinformation campaigns in modern history.
Plutarch
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
Jawaharlal Nehru
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Noam Chomsky | History Quotes
There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.




Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is properly no history; only biography.
Jim Goad
Written history, like the missionary position, is an act executed from the top looking down.
George Saintsbury
Historians may lie, but History cannot.
James Joyce
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
S. M. Stirling | History Quotes
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Norman Cousins
History is a vast early warning system.
Karl Marx
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Jefferson Davis
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
Romain Gary
There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.


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