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

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

There is properly no history; only biography. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

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

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

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

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James

The history of Scotland is one of theology tempered by homicide. - Ivor Brown

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S Truman

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

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F Kennedy

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

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London. - Bette Midler

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

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

I want a house with a garden, but slap bang in the centre of London. Next door to a sushi bar. - Michelle Dockery

In the whole history of technology it would be difficult to find a greater single advance than this. - L.T.C. Rolt

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx

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

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

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

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

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

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners. - Dale Carnegie

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

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

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

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