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History Quotes - random


Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
Pieter Willem Botha
Our history is responsible for the differences in the South African way of life.
Eugene V. Debs
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.




Jim Goad
I can’t appreciate someone else’s history if I’m forced to reject and feel ashamed about mine.
Benjamin Disraeli
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Elie Wiesel | History Quotes
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Alan Sugar
My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.
Alberto Manguel
A book brings its own history to the reader.
David McNally (professor)
When history moves - really moves - it does so in great convulsive jolts.
Isaac Asimov
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
Mark Twain | History Quotes
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.




Harry Turtledove
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
Steve Maraboli
Don't let your history interfere with your destiny.
Cees Nooteboom
Every period in history has it's own punishments, and ours has a multitude.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography.
Bill Johnson | History Quotes
Forgiveness rewrites our history! p.54
Dag Hammarskjold
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one.
Tom Clancy
My wife will tell you I'm practically addicted to the History Channel ... and I read a lot of history.
Antonio Gramsci
History is at once freedom and necessity.


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