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Ambrose Bierce on history
Author: Ambrose Bierce“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.” -Ambrose Bierce
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Hubert H. Humphrey on history
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey“For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.” -Hubert H. Humphrey
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George Orwell on history
Author: George Orwell“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” -George Orwell
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Leo Tolstoy on history
Author: Leo Tolstoy“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.” -Leo Tolstoy
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Victor Hugo on history
Author: Victor Hugo“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.” -Victor Hugo
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Jean-Paul Sartre on history
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre“Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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Pablo Picasso on history
Author: Pablo Picasso“I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.” -Pablo Picasso
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Norodom Sihanouk on history
Author: Norodom Sihanouk“Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.” -Norodom Sihanouk
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Bertrand Russell on history
Author: Bertrand Russell“Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.” -Bertrand Russell
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Napoleon Bonaparte on history
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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Aldous Huxley on history
Author: Aldous Huxley“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.” -Aldous Huxley
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William James on history
Author: William James“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.” -William James
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Mike Tyson on history
Author: Mike Tyson“I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.” -Mike Tyson
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Henry Ward Beecher on history
Author: Henry Ward Beecher“The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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Thomas Merton on history
Author: Thomas Merton“If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.” -Thomas Merton
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Robert A. Heinlein on history
Author: Robert A. Heinlein“One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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B. C. Forbes on history
Author: B. C. Forbes“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” -B. C. Forbes
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Mitt Romney on history
Author: Mitt Romney“The soles of Neil Armstrong’s boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent’s sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless…
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William Butler Yeats on history
Author: William Butler Yeats“You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.” -William Butler Yeats
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Franklin D. Roosevelt on history
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Martin Luther on history
Author: Martin Luther“Blood alone moves the wheels of history.” -Martin Luther
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Stephen Hawking on history
Author: Stephen Hawking“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.” -Stephen Hawking
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Voltaire on history
Author: Voltaire“History should be written as philosophy.” -Voltaire
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Charles Darwin on history
Author: Charles Darwin“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” -Charles Darwin
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Carl Sagan on history
Author: Carl Sagan“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.” -Carl Sagan