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God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed His name to go long offended.
The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.
The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.
History is the land-mark by which we are directed into the true course of life.
Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.
History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced
The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
Looking back at my high school years, I'm struck by how slowly history can move.
My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.
Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.
The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.
Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing.
As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.
Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.
We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.
The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.
If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.
Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.
A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.
No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.
Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.