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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. - Hannah Arendt Quotes
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. - G M Trevelyan Quotes
The greatest tragedy in mankinds entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. - Arthur C Clarke Quotes
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis De Tocqueville Quotes
Theres so much history amongst ourselve that reminds us of something, and we start cracking up. - Nikki Sixx Quotes
I think thats not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely. - John Hume Quotes
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. - Ruth Benedict Quotes
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. - Walter Bagehot Quotes
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. - Abdelaziz Bouteflika Quotes
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. - William H Borah Quotes
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. - Philip Guedalla Quotes
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death. - Robert Fulghum Quotes
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. - Daniel Libeskind Quotes
Im sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision. - Eduard Shevardnadze Quotes
Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. - J L Austin Quotes
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. - Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, Who are these people? Why should we watch them? - Dick Wolf Quotes
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung. - Earl Browder Quotes
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. - Bryan Magee Quotes
I used to tell my history students that while he was a Democrat, I admired Harry Truman because he took tough positions and then stood up for them. - Phil Crane Quotes
I read all the time... I read a lot of history books. - Mickey Spillane Quotes
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. - Victor Hugo Quotes
You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living. - Ken Burns Quotes
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end. - Hubert H Humphrey Quotes
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. - Friedrich August Von Hayek Quotes
Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didnt feature. - Phillip Noyce Quotes
So its clear from whence the history of philosophy is the inner movement of the course of spirit, that is, of absolute subjectivity, towards itself. - Martin Heidegger Quotes
The history of the world is the worlds court of justice. - Friedrich Schiller Quotes
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