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History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

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

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. - Will Rogers

The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck

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

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher. - H L Mencken

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

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. - Lawrence Durrell

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

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. - Gertrude Stein

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

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman

Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. - Henry James

All of history is fused with His meaning because history is HIS-story. - Ravi Zacharias

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself. - George Vecsey

If the cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D Eisenhower

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. - Kurt Vonnegut

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. - Stephen Covey

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

My cell phone is acting up - I keep pressing the home button but when I look around, I'm still at work. - Unknown

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley

Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C S Lewis

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

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's Gift. That's why we call it the 'Present.' - Bill Keane

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

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

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe

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

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

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history. - Richard Rohr

Peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country with a simple oath, we affirm old traditions, and make new beginnings. - George W. Bush

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. - Aldous Huxley