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History remembers only the brilliant failures and the brilliant successes.

Randolph S. Bourne

History in our kind of society is not a luxury but a necessity.

Patrick Hazard

History is written by the victors.

History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.

Mark Yost

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Winston Churchill

There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

Camilo Jose Cela

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Harry S Truman

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara W. Tuchman

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Robert Heinlein

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well behaved women rarely make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

History is Philosophy teaching by examples.

Thucydides

History teaches everything including the future.

Lamartine

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

Harry S Truman

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Bill Gates

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Ruth Benedict

Not the existence of man, but the action of man sets the wheel of history of the struggle in motion.

Pirapakaran

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history

Cornell Capa

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it

Nadia Boulanger

All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!-- Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.

Lord Byron

False history gets made all day, any day,the truth of the new is never on the news.

ADRIENNE RICH

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

Mohandas Gandhi

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

Harold MacMillan

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

George Santayana

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

Richard Watson Gilder

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Senate and the country need Senators of courage who are prepared to make their mark on history by standing with past profiles in courage, and defending not party, not partisanship, but defending principle and democracy itself.

John Kerry

Trust is a complex and slippery notion, and many of its intricacies have been recognized through out history.

B. Nooteboom

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