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History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.
History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.
Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.
There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities.
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers.
My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.
The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.
Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.
I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.
I'm fascinated by delving into the historical context of what life was like in the past.
In non-fiction you have to stay true to historical events, be they personal or national .
[We need] to keep immigration levels measured by population share within historical norms.
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you
The one aim of these financiers is world control by the creation of inextinguishable debts.
My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.
You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?
In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.
Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.
Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.
One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.
I want to bring forth the historical significance of Sreerampur and turn it into a tourism hub.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.
For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.