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History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. - Oscar Wilde

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

It's a very good historical book about history. - Dan Quayle

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. - John F Kennedy

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

History repeats itself; historians repeat one another. - Rupert Brooke

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

Anybody can make history, only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. - Ben Casnocha

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James A. Baldwin

History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John W. Gardner

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

I love you with every cell, with every atom. I love you on a subatomic level. - Robin Williams

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. - Warren Buffet

History never repeats itself. The historians repeat each other. There is a wide difference. - Oscar Wilde

Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. - Stephen Colbert

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Unknown

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. - John F Kennedy

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history. - Rob Dyrdek

Carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. Courage is the ultimate career move. - Anna Quindlen

The shoulders I stand on are broad and strong, full of history and courage and love. How about you? Whose shoulders are you standing on? - Molly Johnson

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. - Renata Adler

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. - Donald Trump

He's ... probably the greatest corporate leader in the history of a major company... Somebody like that would be absolutely incredible. - Donald Trump

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. - Bertrand Russell