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History Quotes - random


Zinedine Zidane | History Quotes
Zidane is one of the greatest players in history, a truly magnificent player.
Don DeLillo
I think fiction recues history from its confusions.
Bill Johnson
Forgiveness rewrites our history! p.54




Aldo Leopold
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
Walter Benjamin
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
David Law Proudfit | History Quotes
Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Plutarch
These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.
Margaret Mead
Throughout history, females have picked providers for mates. Males pick anything.
Jawaharlal Nehru
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Arthur Ransome
What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.
When history moves - really moves - it does so in great convulsive jolts.




Anonymous
history is like your social Security number. long, useless, but needed.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.
Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
Jefferson Davis
Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
Edward Said | History Quotes
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.
Ronald Reagan
In the Reagan years, more federal debt was added than in the entire prior history of the United States.
Lucien Levy-Bruhl
The primitive mentality is a condition of the human mind, and not a stage in its historical development.
Simon Bolivar
The three greatest fools of History have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me!
Karl Marx
[T]he great test [of history] has been decidedly against Marx and his theories of value and surplus value.


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