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| Quote for category - history |
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
- in history
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Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to
ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
- in history
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I don't think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books
influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history.
Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.
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The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
- in history
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than
facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
- in history
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People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.
- in history
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The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of
woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.
- in history
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
- in history
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this
- in history
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History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history
that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.
- in history
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
- in history
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History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does
not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for
nothing, and hardly any women at all - it is very tiresome.
- in history
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We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how
they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than
theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made,
cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
- in history
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A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not
be able to see it.
- in history
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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
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History is the science of what never happens twice.
- in history
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
- in history
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To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.
- in history
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