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History is the invention of historians. — Napoleon Bonaparte
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. — Chinua Achebe
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to… — Oliver Stone
It may be said of many palaeontologists, as Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper said recently of 18th century historians: "Their most serious error was to measure the… — D. V. Ager
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,. — David Dixon
Co-operating critics comb the studios like big-league scouts, prepared to spot the art of the future and to take lead in establishing reputations. Art historians… — Harold Rosenberg
Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who… — Steve Jobs
Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try… — Steve Jobs
The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why… — Jil Sander
To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I believe that in years to come, historians will see the beginning of the 21st century as the ‘golden age’ of real estate. — David Lereah
Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged… — Winston Churchill
The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are… — Jean de la Bruyere
I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to… — David Greenberg
Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009. — Ron Fournier
Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians. — Thomas Frank
As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is… — Thomas Frank
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small. — Henry Louis Gates
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician… — Clifford Geertz
Comedy historians take note: this Gottfried character doesn't have the best eye for detail - and, for a Jew, he doesn't have the best eye… — Gilbert Gottfried
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. — Philip Guedalla
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Scientists disagree among themselves but they never fight over their disagreements. They argue about evidence or go out and seek new evidence. Much the same… — Richard Dawkins

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