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Kanye West on history
Author: Kanye West“I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.” -Kanye West
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Malcom X on history
Author: Malcom X“History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.” -Malcom X
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Alfred North Whitehead on history
Author: Alfred North Whitehead“No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.” -Alfred North Whitehead
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Demetri Martin on history
Author: Demetri Martin“I didn’t do improv in college, I never performed, I didn’t do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.” -Demetri Martin
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Jerry Saltz on history
Author: Jerry Saltz“I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, ‘the ability to conceive failure as progress.’” -Jerry Saltz
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Paul Ryan on history
Author: Paul Ryan“We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.” -Paul Ryan
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Joan Rivers on history
Author: Joan Rivers“Yeah, I read history. But it doesn’t make you nice. Hitler read history, too.” -Joan Rivers
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Joseph Conrad on history
Author: Joseph Conrad“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.” -Joseph Conrad
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Norman Borlaug on history
Author: Norman Borlaug“Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.” -Norman Borlaug
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Theodor Adorno on history
Author: Theodor Adorno“History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.” -Theodor Adorno
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Newt Gingrich on history
Author: Newt Gingrich“In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.” -Newt Gingrich
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Tom Waits on history
Author: Tom Waits“Their memory’s like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can’t remember Tell the things you can’t forget that History puts a saint in every dream.” -Tom Waits
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Gustave Flaubert on history
Author: Gustave Flaubert“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.” -Gustave Flaubert
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Carroll Quigley on history
Author: Carroll Quigley“The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.” -Carroll Quigley
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Bo Bennett on history
Author: Bo Bennett“Value people on their potential, not on their history.” -Bo Bennett
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Christopher Hitchens on history
Author: Christopher Hitchens“I think the materialist conception of history is valid.” -Christopher Hitchens
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Michelle Obama on history
Author: Michelle Obama“There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.” -Michelle Obama
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Ernest Renan on history
Author: Ernest Renan“All history is incomprehensible without Christ.” -Ernest Renan
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Oliver Wendell Holmes on history
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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David Brinkley on history
Author: David Brinkley“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.” -David Brinkley
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William Makepeace Thackeray on history
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray“If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!” -William Makepeace Thackeray
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Alfred A. Montapert on history
Author: Alfred A. Montapert“The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.” -Alfred A. Montapert
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Otto von Bismarck on history
Author: Otto von Bismarck“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.” -Otto von Bismarck
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James Hillman on history
Author: James Hillman“In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.” -James Hillman
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Doug Coupland on history
Author: Doug Coupland“We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.” -Doug Coupland