History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the… — Peter Earle Copy Share Image
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The 2020 presidential election was arguably the most secure - and among the most scrutinized - in American history. — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished… — Abba Eban Copy Share Image
“It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.” — Randall Wallace Copy Share Image
“only rule that ever made sense to me I learned from a history, not an economics, professor at Wharton. “Fear,” he used… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K.… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
The most famous line in gastronomic history, 'Let them eat cake', turns out to have been an eighteenth-century cliche. According to Antonia… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
“You say “hold to your values” at the same time you say our values are all wrong. Help me with this. I… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
I came into history from a primary concern with mathematics and science. This has been a tremendous help to me as a… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
America is fundamentally exceptional. No one in the history of the world had ever done anything to compare with what the Founders… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I don't think that political history is full of a whole lot of tremendously honest people. I have never found any fault… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
If I am playing a historical character, I try to watch the person in newsreels and read about them, but I will… — Sarita Choudhury Copy Share Image
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Matt Hardy is a tag team wrestler. He's one of the greatest tag team wresters in the history of tag team wrestling. — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
You know within three seconds if you're going to have a history with someone - it's a long half-hour if you've got… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Through historical accident, we've ended up with a global network that pretty much allows anybody to communicate with anyone else at any… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
“The hard part of humanity is history. All that's been done to human beings by other human beings. In the Rocky River… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When we were in school, we were told that Stalin was a madman who got control of Europe, which teaches you nothing. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the… — Alfred Whitney Griswold Copy Share Image
The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“In the history of show business, there probably never was a straighter straight man than banana-yellow Bert, the paper clip collector and… — Michael Davis Copy Share Image
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the… — J. A. Spender Copy Share Image
“...and history felt like a conjuring trick. All of this had been in plain view the entire time, but only now did… — Jay Bell Copy Share Image
At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are… — Roh Moo-hyun Copy Share Image
One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
'I Can Do That' has been the most challenging show of my life, and the result has been overwhelming. It is good… — Rithvik Dhanjani Copy Share Image
Russia has a long history of propaganda and trying to influence various nation's cultures and elections. It's happening. They seem to have… — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
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