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Thomas Jefferson | History Quotes
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
Barbara Tuchman
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
John Banville
Possibly the most perverse decision in the history of the award.




Dan Quayle
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Fiona Apple
I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
Alan Sugar | History Quotes
My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.
John Updike
There is very little thanks in history. Dog eat dog.
Anonymous
History is just one bloody thing after another.
Emil Cioran
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
Abraham Lincoln
Now let it be written in history and on Mr. Lincoln's tombstone: "He died an unbeliever."
Stephen R. Lawhead | History Quotes
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.




Alexander Ovechkin
I always look forward to playing in Toronto because it's such a historic city when it comes to hockey.
Stephen Spender
History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
James Fenton | History Quotes
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in its origins,its transmission was oral.
Tom Clancy
My wife will tell you I'm practically addicted to the History Channel ... and I read a lot of history.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.
Laura Penny
Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.
Hastings Ismay
On the w:Festival of Britain, "We are consciously and deliberately determined to make history."


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