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Michael Moorer It is over with; I am...
Troy Vincent History is history.
Zhu Rongji History can never be covered...
Dan Quayle It's a very good historical...
Lennart Meri History is more interesting than...
Tom T. Hall I am a fan of history...
Anatoli Boukreev I want this book to be...
Voltaire History should be written as...
Morgan Freeman Black history is American history...
Mickey Spillane I read all the time... I...
Oliver Stone I study history in order to...
John Morton The history of trying to start...
Alfred de Vigny On the day when man told...
Cesare Beccaria Happy is the nation without a...
Bo Bennett Value people on their potential...
Patrick Henry I like dreams of the future...
Vladimir Lenin Sometimes - history needs a push...
Marcus Garvey A people without the knowledge...
Andrew Cohen Freedom has no history.
George William Curtis While we read history we make...
James E. Jones I happened to happened to land...
James E. Jones When I was in New York...
Johan Huizinga History is the interpretation of...
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Someday, after mastering the winds...
Thomas Jefferson My reading of history convinces...
Winston Churchill History will be kind to me...
George Santayana Those who do not learn from...
Thomas Jefferson I like the dreams of the...
Martin Luther King, Jr. History will have to record...
Napoleon Bonaparte History is the version of past...
R. D. Laing We live in a moment of...
Tom Wilson We are set to make very...
James A. Baldwin People are trapped in history...
Gilbert K. Chesterton People who make history know...
Martin Luther King, Jr. We are not makers of history...
Konrad Adenauer History is the sum total of...
Harry S. Truman There is nothing new in the...
Jim Fiebig Might does not make right, it...
Boris Becker I can't change history, I...
Aldous Huxley That men do not learn very...
Martin Heidegger Whatever can be noted historically...
Stephen Covey Live out of your imagination...
Thomas Carlyle No great man lives in vain...
Nora Dunn As an actor, you have to...
Carter G. Woodson If a race has no history...
Mohandas Gandhi A small body of determined...
Winston Churchill For my part, I consider that...
Julian Cope The people who make history...
Otto von Bismarck The main thing is to make...
George Bernard Shaw If history repeats itself, and...
John F. Kennedy We would like to live as...
Mark Twain The very ink with which...
Philip Roth History... is a nightmare from...
C. S. Lewis If you read history you will...
Winston Churchill History is written by the...
Ambrose Bierce History is an account, mostly...
Eddie Izzard I grew up in Europe, where...
Mohandas Gandhi Violent men have not been...
Thomas Jefferson History, in general, only informs...
John F. Kennedy Geography has made us neighbors...
Dwight D. Eisenhower Things have never been more...
W. H. Auden May it not be that, just...
Robert Frost I often say of George...
Friedrich Nietzsche In the course of history, men...
George W. Bush The true history of my...
Napoleon Bonaparte What is history but a fable...
Jim Hodges I was feeling a strong need...
Aldous Huxley That men do not learn very...
Henry David Thoreau It is remarkable how closely...
Mohandas Gandhi Among the many misdeeds of the...
Johnny Depp France, and the whole of...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman But reason has no power...
John F. Kennedy We have the power to make...
George Bernard Shaw Hegel was right when he said...
Thomas Jefferson Sometimes it is said that man...
Robert Fulghum I believe that imagination is...
George Santayana History is a pack of lies...
Friedrich Schiller The history of the world is...
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The history of the world is...
Karl Popper There is no history of mankind...
David McCullough No harm's done to history by...
Theodore Roosevelt There has never yet been a...
James A. Baldwin I am what time, circumstance...
Joan Rivers Yesterday is history, tomorrow is...
Aristotle Poetry is finer and more...
Mason Cooley Psychology keeps trying to vindicate...
Winston Churchill Study history, study history. In...
C. Wright Mills Neither the life of an...
Woodrow Wilson Liberty has never come from...
Jon Porter Presently, the Commission for Commemorating...
Mason Cooley Every literary critic believes he...
Gustave Stresemann The history of nations shows...
Ayn Rand We are fast approaching the...
Tom Jenkinson My history is really playing...
Harri Holkeri In every European nation, there...
Harold Evans Throughout America's young history there...
Robert Kennedy Few will have the greatness to...
Margaret Thatcher Europe was created by history...
James A. Baldwin American history is longer, larger...
Bob Ehrlich I promised her an interesting...
George W. Bush I sent American troops to Iraq...
Virginia Woolf For most of history, Anonymous...
Ron Silver It made me think about a...
Eckhard Pfeiffer Today is either the beginning...
Victor Hugo Well, for us, in history where...
William Jennings Bryan My place in history will...
Voltaire Indeed, history is nothing more...
Victor Hugo What is history? An echo of...
Bertrand Russell The megalomaniac differs from the...
John F. Kennedy In the long history of the...
Jeanne Moreau My face has changed with the...
John F. Kennedy History is a relentless master...
Plato Poetry is nearer to vital...
John W. Gardner History never looks like history...
Harry S. Truman To hell with them. When...
Helmut Jahn America has always imported history...
Harry S. Truman Men make history and not the...
Warren Buffett If past history was all there...
Samuel Butler The history of art is the...
Arthur Henderson Whatever we do or fail to...
Roland Joffe I began to feel that, in...
Hans-Georg Gadamer In fact history does not...
James H. Breasted The man who first gave history...
Theodor Adorno History does not merely touch...
Robert M. Fresco The history of medicine is the...
Dorothy West There is no life that does...
Voltaire History is only the register...
Quentin Tarantino I loved history because to me...
Jack Kevorkian When history looks back, it...
Pablo Picasso I don't believe in accidents...
Dave Barry The Internet is the most...
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidents quickly realize that while...
Napoleon Bonaparte History is a set of lies...
William Butler Yeats You that would judge me, do...
Samuel Butler The history of the world is...
Ronald Reagan History teaches that war begins...
Ambrose Bierce The slightest acquaintance with history...
Eduard Shevardnadze I don't want to go down...
Helen Thomas I'm covering the worst president...
Maya Angelou History, despite its wrenching pain...
Fiona Shaw Irish people are educated not...
Thomas Carlyle History shows that the majority...
Aristotle Hence poetry is something more...
Dwight D. Eisenhower History does not long entrust...
Shigeru Yoshida Japan has opened a new chapter...
David Broder For the first time in history...
Oliver Stone I think that many people in...
Albert Camus To correct a natural indifference...
George Lucas Even in high school I was...
Benjamin Disraeli The view of Jerusalem is the...
Karl Marx The history of all previous...
Bobby Jindal Our culture, language, history, and...
Rudyard Kipling If history were taught in the...
Kevin Costner When I read Thirteen Days I...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow If we could read the secret...
Pat Robertson There are times in history...
Gavin Bryars Music history has flowed under...
William Hazlitt No man is truly great who...
Karl Jaspers As a universal history of...
Bertrand Russell Religions, which condemn the pleasures...
Karl Marx History repeats itself, first as...
Benjamin Disraeli Read no history: nothing but...
George Eliot The happiest women, like the...
Edmund Burke Those who don't know history...
George Eliot Rome - the city of visible...
Franklin D. Roosevelt The point in history at which...
Jean Piaget The current state of knowledge...
Richard M. Nixon Life isn't meant to be easy...
Kylie Minogue You know, songs often have a...
Todd Tiahrt Today, there are more Americans...
Dwight D. Eisenhower Neither a wise man nor a...
Benjamin Disraeli Assassination has never changed the...
Aldous Huxley From their experience or from...
Peter Warlock Dates and periods are of...
Willard Scott I got more mail than anybody...
Billy Sheehan History has repeated itself many...
George J. Mitchell When I went to college, my...
George Eliot You should read history and...
Karl Marx Anyone who knows anything of...
Ken Burns You can learn as much about...
Karl Marx It is not history which uses...
Theodore Roosevelt Never throughout history has a...
Richard M. Nixon I don't think that a leader...
Matthew Simpson Of history, how little do we...
David Herbert Lawrence The only history is a mere...
Paul Valery The history of thought may be...
Sue Kelly The War on Terror is one...
John Sharp Williams My reading of history convinces...
Will Durant One of the lessons of history...
Henry Ward Beecher The world's battlefields have been...
Angie Everhart My mother took my picture to...
David Hume A man acquainted with history...
Ernest Dimnet The history of the past...
Simon Hoggart She is the first head of...
Alice Walker All History is current; all...
George Orwell The very concept of objective...
Richard M. Nixon No event in American history...
Dean Kamen If history is any indication...
Babatunde Olatunji Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is...
Thomas Carlyle History, a distillation of rumour...
Michael Phelps I have the opportunity to be...
Francis P. Yockey A political theory seeks to...
Enya I know every note in every...
Thomas Merton If you want to study the...
Francis Bacon Antiquities are history defaced, or...
Norman Borlaug Man seems to insist on...
Norman Granz The history of all big jazz...
Gertrude Stein This is the lesson that...
Thomas Starr King What a year to live in...
Ernest Thompson Seton I believe that natural history...
Dan Quayle People that are really very...
Richard M. Nixon In the long term we can...
Dorothy Salisbury Davis History's like a story in a...
Carrie P. Meek America may be slow to rise...
Aldous Huxley The charm of history and its...
Alexis Herman Unlike any other time in our...
John W. Vessey, Jr. Don't get small units caught...
Gustav Krupp I knew German history well...
Albert Schweitzer One truth stands firm. All...
George Michael Everything was going my way. I...
Lou Gerstner I want to become a student...
Aung San Suu Kyi The history of the world shows...
Albert Camus Those who weep for the happy...
Eleanor Roosevelt Anyone who knows history, particularly...
Honore de Balzac Passion is universal humanity. Without...
Katherine Anne Porter I have not much interest in...
George William Curtis It is not observed in history...
Jacques Yves Cousteau Mankind has probably done more...
Jawaharlal Nehru You don't change the course of...
Karl Marx History does nothing; it does...
Jean Anouilh Life is a wonderful thing to...
John Hume I think that's not a question...
James Martineau All that is noble in the...
Christopher Bond History's lesson is to make...
Steve Lacy I still love the whole history...
Ferdinand de Saussure The business, task or object...
Mao Zedong The people, and the people...
Eric Hoffer The game of history is usually...
Harry S. Truman Nixon is one of the few...
Alfred de Vigny Of late years (perhaps as a...
Carl Sagan Personally, I would be delighted...
Gertrude Stein History takes time. History makes...
Henry Hampton Food might be more immediately...
Lafcadio Hearn But the history of the changes...
Eugene V. Debs When great changes occur in...
Tim Reid Why would you create a movie...
Friedrich Von Schlegel The German national character is...
Friedrich Von Schlegel The subject of history is the...
Benito Mussolini It is humiliating to remain...
Donald Kagan From the time I was a...
William James The history of philosophy is...
Maynard J. Keenan Just in general, any government...
Allan Sherman When the great history of...
Edward R. Murrow Difficulty is the excuse history...
E. O. Wilson If history and science have...
Dan Quayle The Holocaust was an obscene...
Helen Thomas This is the worst President...
Norman Cousins A library is the delivery room...
Aldous Huxley De Sade is the one completely...
Kofi Annan More than ever before in human...
Carl Jung Who has fully realized that...
Virginia Woolf The history of men's opposition...
Jodie Foster I guess I've played a lot...
Thomas Huxley I believe that history might...
Hubert H. Humphrey For the first time in the...
Potter Stewart The 4th Amendment and the...
Ricky Skaggs The difference between me and...
Marcus Allen You know, I think when I...
Gwen Ifill Can't disagree with the need...
Michael Beschloss First of all, there's no...
Simone Weil Imagination is always the fabric...
Dwight D. Eisenhower The history of free men is...
Gertrude Stein It is the soothing thing about...
Harry Johnston Long after this wonderful event...
Abdul Kalam We have not invaded anyone. We...
Peter Abrahams You can't walk alone. Many...
Coretta Scott King There is a spirit and a...
Henry Hampton Everybody needs history but the...
Kirstie Alley Through history, people look for...
Norman Mailer Revolutions are the periods of...
H. G. Wells Human history in essence is...
Henry Miller The Teutons have been singing...
Stockwell Day Time and time again, history...
Camilo Jose Cela There are two kinds of man...
Anne Sullivan I think that there are some...
Aleister Crowley The people who have really...
Avery Brooks What I am is a thinking...
Honore de Balzac All humanity is passion; without...
George W. Bush Now, there are some who would...
George W. Bush Americans are rising to the...
Roland Joffe I simply wanted to state that...
Jean-Paul Sartre Every age has its own poetry...
Arthur Schopenhauer Newspapers are the second hand...
Roy Moore But today, government is taking...
Jefferson Davis Neither current events nor history...
Morgan Freeman I don't want a Black History...
Wilson Greatbatch History has repeatedly shown that...
Johan Huizinga History can predict nothing except...
Imre Lakatos Philosophy of science without history...
John D. Long I am now reading Cooper's...
David McCullough I can fairly be called an...
George Washington The marvel of all history is...
H. G. Wells Human history becomes more and...
B. C. Forbes History has demonstrated that the...
Thomas Sowell Much of the social history of...
Barbara Jordan Throughout out history, when people...
Ray Manzarek Through all of history mankind...
E. L. Doctorow History is the present. That's...
Richard Dawkins But perhaps the rest of us...
William I. Thompson The teacher of history's work...
Woodrow Wilson The history of liberty is a...
John le Carre History keeps her secrets longer...
Linda Chavez The United Nations was founded...
W. H. Auden History is, strictly speaking, the...
Charles A. Beard All the lessons of history in...
Woodrow Wilson There is little for the great...
Napoleon Bonaparte Skepticism is a virtue in...
Joseph Conrad History repeats itself, but the...
Sidney Poitier So I'm OK with myself, with...
Theodore Bikel In my world, history comes...
Fred Allen We are living in the machine...
Pope John Paul II Today, for the first time in...
Lion Feuchtwanger Like the philosopher, the author...
Ed Gillespie The highest percentage of African...
David Wilkerson God has never, in the history...
Tom Waits Their memory's like a train...
Wilma Mankiller There are a whole lot of...
David Talbot Do I regret taking the company...
Ralph Abernathy Christians should be ready for...
Stockwell Day Our history is that we can...
Malcolm Bradbury English history is all about...
John Henrik Clarke I saw no African people in...
Christopher Dawson It is clear that this...
Carol Moseley Braun People just want to hear some...
Ansel Adams There are worlds of experience...
Sonia Johnson We must remember that one...
David Dinkins Well, I'm not sure, but of...
Jackson Browne Right around the end of the...
Alexis de Tocqueville History is a gallery of...
Arnold J. Toynbee History is a vision of God's...
Alex Lifeson You know, we have a long...
Bruce Springsteen The audiences are there as a...
Jerzy Kosinski I look back into past history...
Judy Chicago I set my sights upon becoming...
Golda Meir The public history of modern...
Jeremy Rifkin We are entering a new phase...
Milton Friedman History suggests that capitalism is...
Ani DiFranco Strangers are exciting, their mystery...
Haile Gebrselassie This is what I wanted. They...
Lester B. Pearson True there has been more talk...
John Thorn Better than anything else in...
Jose Ortega Y Gasset We have need of history in...
Robert Baldwin Ross The law reports in newspapers...
Jared Diamond I decided that now is the...
Mariel Hemingway When child actors act well...
Stephen Cohen There remains, however, the hope...
Mike Tyson I'm the biggest fighter in the...
Oliver Wendell Holmes Every library should try to be...
Richard M. Nixon Once you get into this great...
Stefan Zweig In history as in human life...
Woodrow Wilson It is like writing history...
Genevieve Gorder The Deep South has a...
Sidney Poitier History passes the final judgment...
Dee Hock Throughout history, it took centuries...
Emma Anderson No, my degree was history, not...
Angela Carter Reading a book is like re...
Richard M. Nixon The greatest honor history can...
Anita Roddick All through history, there have...
Aleksander Kwasniewski And we want to develop our...
Anne Tyler I do write long, long...
Jeremy Rifkin I wanted to make sure that...
Thomas Griffith Journalism is in fact history...
Nikki Sixx There's so much history amongst...
Bob Woodward After Nixon resigned in 1974...
John Thorn Yes, we've seen it all before...
P. J. O'Rourke In our brief national history...
Ken Follett World War II is the greatest...
Alfred North Whitehead No period of history has ever...
Jurgen Klinsmann Based on history the expectations...
Norman Cousins History is a vast early...
M. Scott Peck The whole course of human...
Arthur Erickson What is the thread of western...
Martin Fleischmann It has been suggested at...
Henry A. Kissinger Most foreign policies that history...
Bill Muse I think a secure profession...
Russell Hoban If the past cannot teach the...
Martin Luther Blood alone moves the wheels...
Alfred Russel Wallace It has been generally the...
Jared Diamond Introspection and preserved writings give...
Fred Thompson So if you look back over...
Paul Simon Having a track record to live...
Pat Robertson I think the Democrats are...
Jean Bodin The study of history is the...
Molly Ivins It is possible to read the...
David Hume There is not to be found...
Salma Hayek I don't see women and think...
Steve Ballmer I come back to the same...
Henry Adams I have written too much...
Ken Burns Good history is a question of...
Thomas Huxley History warns us that it is...
Harold Washington Throughout American history many of...
Hassan Nasrallah In man - in the history of...
Hannah Arendt It is in the very nature...
Sela Ward For me, Los Angeles, New York...
Clarence Darrow History repeats itself. That's one...
E. M. Forster History develops, art stands still...
Joe Baca Pearl Harbor caused our Nation...
Franz Boas Furthermore, the study of the...
Mangosuthu Buthelezi We have our own history, our...
Anita Borg We're at unique point in...
Emile M. Cioran Isn't history ultimately the result...
Friedrich Engels All history has been a history...
Mohsen Makhmalbaf From my films, you can at...
John Polkinghorne Of course, nobody would deny...
Moliere All the ills of mankind, all...
Atom Egoyan I have always felt that this...
Franz Kafka The history of mankind is the...
Sherrod Brown Young people have been at the...
Malcom X History is a people's memory...
Henry Ford We don't want tradition. We...
Karl Marx The writer may very well serve...
Sun Myung Moon Throughout history no one has...
Tim Robbins I learned much more about...
Arnold J. Toynbee Of the twenty-two civilizations...
Donald Kagan Without history we are the...
Ibrahim Babangida With each new book, the march...
Hannah Arendt No cause is left but the...
Howard Nemerov I think there was a revolution...
Mike Rounds There are more people living...
Kenneth Scott Latourette Christianity is usually called a...
Christine Keeler If I don't tell it all...
Rafael Palmeiro But I think mainly, you know...
David Cronenberg We are at a major epoch...
James Hutton The past history of our globe...
Gene Tierney Those who become mentally ill...
Etta James You can't fake this music. You...
Clarence Darrow History repeats itself, and that's...
Boris Yeltsin There were no strategic mistakes...
Krist Novoselic But whenever history is in the...
Walt Whitman Judging from the main portions...
Christina Aguilera I love doing normal things...
Fernand Braudel History may be divided into...
Dizzy Gillespie I think the idea is now...
Beau Bridges I've always been interested in...
Donald Kagan Throughout the human experience people...
Jo Bonner Never in our country's history...
Matt Cameron I'm always going to get more...
Manuel Puig In a country like France, so...
Luke Ford I loved history, particularly of...
Gustave Flaubert Our ignorance of history causes...
William Faulkner It is my aim, and every...
Simon Newcomb One hardly knows where, in the...
Susan Sontag The becoming of man is the...
Fred Ward It's a major part of world...
Walter Bagehot The best history is but like...
Krist Novoselic It felt like being in the...
Noam Chomsky The Bible is one of the...
Pope John Paul II Love is never defeated, and I...
Douglas Hurd History provides no precise guidelines...
Oswald Mosley There are periods in history...
Vincent Bugliosi It was OK for the media...
Jared Diamond The broadest pattern of history...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Black people don't have an...
David Cronenberg Anybody who comes to the...
Emma Goldman The history of progress is...
George J. Mitchell In every society in human...
William McKinley That's all a man can hope...
Martin Kippenberger My style is where you see...
Charles de Gaulle In the tumult of men and...
Eduard Shevardnadze I'm sure that was the right...
Arthur Ashe You learn about equality in...
Billy Bragg I'm trying to make a case...
Gustave Stresemann Nothing in the reporting of a...
Ibrahim Babangida The history of our country is...
Jim Ryun Mr. Speaker, we have reached a...
Dag Hammarskjold Destiny is something not be to...
Dick Gregory We used to root for the...
Goldwin Smith It is needless to say how...
Derek Jacobi I think my parents were happy...
Allen Tate A poem may be an instance...
Gretchen Mol I focused on where she was...
Michael K. Simpson History has shown us that, on...
Sidney Sheldon I wanted to make sure that...
Dean Acheson No people in history have ever...
James Hillman In the history of the...
Benito Mussolini Fascism is a religion. The...
Joan Cusack I love Chicago. It's such a...
Joan Rivers Yeah, I read history. But it...
Bernice Johnson Reagon One of the biggest things I...
Leo Burnett Whether or not the standard of...
Hans Urs von Balthasar Prior to an individual's encounter...
Kim Novak The script was always the most...
Friedrich Durrenmatt World history is tragic.
Sally Kirkland I had art as a major...
Rafael Palmeiro I wish that they had the...
Patrick Rafter I'm sick of making bloody...
Gerald R. Ford History and experience tell us...
Karl Jaspers The great philosophers and the...
Richard P. Feynman It is in the admission of...
Loretta Lynn I know there's some kind of...
Major Owens It was the best route to...



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