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History Quotes - random


Robert A. Heinlein | History Quotes
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
Walter Benjamin
History breaks down in images not into stories.
David McNally (professor)
When history moves - really moves - it does so in great convulsive jolts.




Sir Walter Raleigh
[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.
Tom Robbins
Nostalgia's nice enough in little bitty doses, it puts personal peach fuzz on the hard ass of history.
Plutarch | History Quotes
So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.
Penn Jillette
It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.
Cees Nooteboom
Every period in history has it's own punishments, and ours has a multitude.
John Banville
Possibly the most perverse decision in the history of the award.
Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
David Cross | History Quotes
James Lipton: The most pompous arrogant failure in history.




Marcus Aurelius
All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.
Kanye West
"Make black history every day, I don't need a month."
Martin Buber
The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
Benjamin Disraeli
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Socrates | History Quotes
We cannot help but see Socrates as the turning-point, the vortex of world history.
Edward Said
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
Tommy Lee
I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.
Michael E. Brown
I may go down in history as the guy who killed Pluto.
Nayef Al-Rodan
Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.


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