“ The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ K is for KENGHIS KHAN. _He_ was a very _nice_ person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. ”
- Harlan Ellison- Copy
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“ History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you. ”
- Nikita Khrushchev- Copy
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“ To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars. ”
- Gretel Ehrlich- Copy
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“ The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. ”
- James M. Barrie- Copy
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“ Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically. ”
- Mao Tse Tung- Copy
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“ The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of America's finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded. ”
- Richard Nixon- Copy
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“ History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play on the dead. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ History never looks like history when you are living through it. ”
- Johannes A. Gaertner- Copy
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“ History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. ”
- Milton Friedman- Copy
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“ History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ”
- Abba Eban- Copy
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“ My record royalties right now are four times stronger than when I was the Madonna of my day,... Now it's over the top. I mean the records, they all hold up through the years. ”
- Tony Benn- Copy
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“ We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made. ”
- Don Herold- Copy
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“ What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race. ”
- Thomas Sowell- Copy
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“ History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ”
- Stephen Spender- Copy
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“ What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ I did not realize I should destroy personal records. I may have thrown out some personal information that the fraudster was able to use to apply for an account. ”
- Richard Cohen- Copy
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