The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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There is properly no history; only biography.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This isn't a romanticized biography. It's a biography period. If here and there it resembles a romantic novel, the credit is only Garibaldi's, not his potrayers.
Indro Montanelli
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Disraeli
There were people who got me very involved in politics. But then there was also a book. It was a trilogy, a biography of Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher, which made a very deep impression on me and gave me a love of political biography for the rest of my life.
Tony Blair
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
Alfred Rosenberg
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