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QuotaBillsWe cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln
History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster
History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Stand up and walk out of your history. - Phil McGraw
History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins
What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf
Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey
Leftovers: 1. Mull-again stew; 2. Repast history. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck
Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. - Ronald Wright
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 is a vision of God's creation on the move. - Arnold J. Toynbee
History repeats itself; historians repeat one another. - Rupert Brooke
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. - Mark Twain
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 W F Hegel
A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. - Martin H. Fischer
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. - Lawrence Durrell
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. - Gertrude Stein
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S Truman
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
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? - Al Boliska
I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. - Waris Ahluwalia
I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. - George Burns
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it... is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now? - Paul Harvey