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History Quotes - random


Emil Cioran | History Quotes
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Stephen R. Lawhead
You’re changing the course of history. I thought that sort of thing was strictly forbidden.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.




Oscar Wilde
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Norman Mailer
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
Henry St John | History Quotes
They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.
Saki
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
Friedrich Schlegel
Der Historiker ist ein rückwärtsgekehrter Prophet.
Aldo Leopold
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.
Eamon de Valera | History Quotes
All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.




Dag Hammarskjold
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
Tom Clancy
My wife will tell you I'm practically addicted to the History Channel ... and I read a lot of history.
Derren Brown
The greatest dinner party guest in history…or the scariest man in Britain – The Guardian
Gustavo Gutierrez
The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.
Barbara Tuchman | History Quotes
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
H. L. Mencken
Historian — An unsuccessful novelist.
James Branch Cabell
The Terrible and Marvellous History of Manuel Pig-Tender That Afterwards Was Named Manuel the Redeemer.
Ha-Joon Chang
History is on the side of the regulators.
Emil Cioran
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.


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