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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Writer
History
Sin
Writing
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The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.
Celia Green
/
Writer
History
Important
Lasts
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Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved.
Jane Goodall
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Primatologist
Nature
Relationship
History
Animal
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History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.
Allan Nevins
/
Historian
History
Army
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Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de
Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
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History
Mouths
Speak
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Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
Paul P. Harris
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Attorney
History
Fall
Permanent
Superiority
Rise
After
Nation
Realized
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The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
Kara Walker
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Artist
History
Events
Illusion
Past Events
Work History Past
Simply
Else
Point
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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey
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Publisher
Friendship
Family
Journey
Knowledge
Love
Relationship
History
Culture
Past
Roots
Tree
Like
History Culture Past
Without
Origin
Past History
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A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.
Muhammad Iqbal
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Philosopher
History
Light
Remembrance
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It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.
Leopold Von Ranke
/
Historian
History
Men
Memories
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
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Diplomat
Funny
History
War
Alternatives
Behave
Exhausted
Nations
Sarcasm
Sarcastic
Teaches
Wisely
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An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
William Manchester
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Author
History
Dresses
Preparation
Wonder
Awesome
Behold
Edwardian
Lady
Preparations
Viewing
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Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
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Author
History
War
Sitting
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead
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Cultural Anthropologist
History
Being Sad
Censored
Elders
First Time
Media
Time History First Time
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I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
Mike Tyson
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Professional Boxer
History
Sports
Believe
Cash
Fighter
Register
Biggest
Cash Register
Check
Sport
The History Of
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The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.
William E. Gladstone
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Former Chancellor Of The Exchequer
History
Errors
Order
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What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
Thucydides
/
Historian
History
War
Growth
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
George Santayana
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Philosopher
History
Angle
Arrogant
Blood
Delight
Down
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw
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Playwright
History
Hegel
Said
Man Anything Never
Anything
He
Learn
Right
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We must enlist our own snake and strike like a cobra against their vitals with an attack on Washington.
Robert E. Lee
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Military Officer
History
War
Snakes
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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
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Philosopher
History
Entirety
Fall
Escape
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When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.
Augustus William Hare
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Author
History
Littles
Rocks
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History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.
Norman O. Brown
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Writer
History
Commemoration
Stage
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The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
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Historian
History
Doe
Miracle
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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
Honore De Balzac
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Novelist
History
Events
Principles
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Paul Mccartney
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Musician
History
Bass
Guy
Player
Wanted
Fat
Played
Back
Bass Player
Minds
None
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If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.
Isaac Asimov
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Author
History
Mistake
Stupid
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A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland
/
24Th U.s. President
History
Dignity
Honest
Inspirational Life
Labor
Lying
Patriotic
Toil
American
Fact
Sentiment
Lies
Truly
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Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.
Mother Teresa
/
Saint
Women
History
Poor
Today
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Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
/
Historian
History
Audience
House
Left
President
White
White House
Matters
Gets
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Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."
Jonathan Frakes
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Actor
Motivational
History
Men
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Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
A. O. Scott
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Journalist
History
Cost
Pearls
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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Poet
History
Lamps
Land
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The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.
John Hope Franklin
/
Historian
History
Prejudice
Writing
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger
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Former National Security Advisor
History
Greek
Tragedy
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And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there's gotta be some history.
Edwin Starr
/
Singer
History
Kind
Longevity
Order
History Myself Me
Gotta
Personally
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson
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Biologist
History
Science
Truth
Desire
Passion
Taught
Taught Us
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The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
Henry Louis Gates
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Literary Critic
Inspirational
History
Truth
Black
Black History
Truth Is
More
Thing
Much
Make
Complex
Could
Make Up
Than
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry Kissinger
/
History
Fulfilling
Greek
Tragedy
Nixon
Otherwise
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Chinua Achebe
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Novelist
History
Complicated
Nigeria
Nigeria Independence
Stories
Part
Colonial
Examined
Story
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David Mccullough
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Author
History
Navigation
Way
Who We Are
Why
Who
Times
Guide
Perilous
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We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.
T. F. Tout
/
History
Past
Political
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The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!
H. L. Mencken
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Journalist
History
Home
Thinking
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history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.
Marthe Bibesco
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Writer
History
Immortality
Upside Down
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Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.
John Terraine
/
Historian
History
Matter
Waiting
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The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.
Susan Jacoby
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Author
History
Causes
Groups
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somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.
C. V. Wedgwood
/
History
Moral
School
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Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
William Tecumseh Sherman
/
U.s. General
History
Crazy
Drunk
Now
Stand
Me
He
Each
Grant
Him
Other
Stood
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Black history is a series of missing chapters from British history. I'm trying to put those bits back in.
David Olusoga
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History
Bits
Black History
British
Chapters
Missing
Series
Trying
Back
Put
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After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.
Reggie Jackson
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Baseball Player
Funny
History
Baseball
Baseball History
Black
Jackie
Mean
Robinson
The Most Important
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