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History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no reason to repeat bad history. - Eleanor Holmes Norton

Peace is preferable to a place in history. - Justo P Benitez

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

That great dust-heap called 'history'. - Augustine Birrell

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

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

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur! - Unknown

History would be a wonderful thing - if it were only true. - Leo Tolstoy

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. - Edmund Burke

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

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

A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. - Lakota Sioux Proverb

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. - John Keats

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - William Lyon Mackenzie King

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. - Donald Trump

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. - Fiona Shaw

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

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

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. - John Barth

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

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. - George Burns

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

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

How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. - Martha Stewart

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. - Frank Zappa

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. - Lauren Groff

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

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness. - Lewis B Smedes

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. - Malcolm Muggeridge

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth. - Jim Harrison

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. - Stephen Hawking