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QuotaBillsPeace is preferable to a place in history. - Justo P Benitez
That great dust-heap called 'history'. - Augustine Birrell
Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. - Edward R. Murrow
It's a very good historical book about history. - Dan Quayle
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
You have to look at history as an evolution of society. - Jean Chretien
History would be a wonderful thing - if it were only true. - Leo Tolstoy
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 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
In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. - Donald Trump
Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West
All of history is fused with His meaning because history is HIS-story. - Ravi Zacharias
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F Kennedy
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
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling
Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. - Watchman Nee
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D Eisenhower
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. - Stephen Covey
History never repeats itself. The historians repeat each other. There is a wide difference. - Oscar Wilde
Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx
Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C S Lewis
Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. - Frank Zappa
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
Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history. - Rob Dyrdek
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
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
I know of no other man in our time, or indeed in recent history, who so convincingly demonstrated the power of the spirit over material things. - Stafford Cripps
There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in. - Kay Boyle
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