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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Moliere

Great, History, Political

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
Dick Gregory

Great, History, Victory

If you think you have it tough, read history books.
Bill Maher

History, Tough, Read

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France

History, Lies, Books

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.
Gene Simmons

History, Truth, Mother

Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
George Michael

History, Everything, Books

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
Jean Anouilh

Life, History, Live

As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

History, Humble, Everything

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
Christine Keeler

History, Wrong, Tell

We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.
Anna Paquin

History, Big, Learn

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
Eudora Welty

Find, Themselves, Story

My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Ellen Tauscher

History, Heart, Down

When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history.
Dave Foley

History, School, Learned

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
Mickey Spillane

Time, History, Read

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.
Helen Thomas

History, Learned, American

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
Phillip Noyce

History, Winners, Losers

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.
Jessica Lynch

History, War, Job

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
David Strathairn

History, Film, Books

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
Richard Rorty

History, Books, Ideas

It is over with; I am in the history books.
Michael Moorer

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