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History… is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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History… is an aggregation of truths, half-truths, semi-truths, fables, myths, rumors, prejudices, personal narratives, gossip, and official prevarications. It is a canvas upon which thousands of artists throughout the ages have splashed their conceptions and interpretations of a day and an era. Some motifs are grotesque and some are magnificent.
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History… is, indeed, little more than the register of the ”crimes, follies, and misfortunes” of mankind. But what experience and history teach is this – that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
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History…. is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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History: a collection of epitaphs.
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History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
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History: gossip well told.
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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.
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History’s like a story in a way: it depends on who’s telling it.
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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
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How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.
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However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some significant action is performed for the first or last time.
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Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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I am not a literary man. I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.
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I am responsible only to God and history.
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I came, I saw, I conquered.
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