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Ben Stein on history
Author: Ben Stein“I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.” -Ben Stein
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Thomas Hardy on history
Author: Thomas Hardy“My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.” -Thomas Hardy
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Octavio Paz on history
Author: Octavio Paz“Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.” -Octavio Paz
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Ilka Chase on history
Author: Ilka Chase“Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.” -Ilka Chase
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Jim Wallis on history
Author: Jim Wallis“But when one believes that you’ve been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?” -Jim Wallis
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Pat Robertson on history
Author: Pat Robertson“I’m a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don’t understand why in America it’s such a big deal that we won’t read the Koran and we won’t look at history.” -Pat Robertson
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Alan Dershowitz on history
Author: Alan Dershowitz“No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.” -Alan Dershowitz
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Camille Paglia on history
Author: Camille Paglia“Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan’s bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.” -Camille Paglia
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Hermann Hesse on history
Author: Hermann Hesse“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.” -Hermann Hesse
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Neale Donald Walsch on history
Author: Neale Donald Walsch“It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.” -Neale Donald Walsch
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Kim Il-sung on history
Author: Kim Il-sung“The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.” -Kim Il-sung
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Simon Wiesenthal on history
Author: Simon Wiesenthal“The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.” -Simon Wiesenthal
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Russell Banks on history
Author: Russell Banks“My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.” -Russell Banks
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Audre Lorde on history
Author: Audre Lorde“It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.” -Audre Lorde
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David Hockney on history
Author: David Hockney“You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.” -David Hockney
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John Cleese on history
Author: John Cleese“I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.” -John Cleese
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Daniel Day-Lewis on history
Author: Daniel Day-Lewis“I’m not keen on history being tampered with… to any extent.” -Daniel Day-Lewis
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Fred Allen on history
Author: Fred Allen“We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.” -Fred Allen
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Jesse Jackson on history
Author: Jesse Jackson“In many ways, history is marked as ‘before’ and ‘after’ Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.” -Jesse Jackson
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Loretta Lynn on history
Author: Loretta Lynn“I know there’s some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.” -Loretta Lynn
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Margaret Fuller on history
Author: Margaret Fuller“The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.” -Margaret Fuller
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Dean Acheson on history
Author: Dean Acheson“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.” -Dean Acheson
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Michael Phelps on history
Author: Michael Phelps“I think sometimes I guess you see records, say you want to get there and use that as motivation. In a way, it’s kind of cool if there is a possibility to rewrite history and be up there with the greats of Olympic history.” -Michael Phelps
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Jawaharlal Nehru on history
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru“You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.” -Jawaharlal Nehru