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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel… — Dan Brown
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to… — James Buchanan
One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid… — James Buchan
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. — Edmund Burke
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. — Ken Burns
God cannot alter the past, though historians can. — Samuel Butler
There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers'… — Buzz Aldrin
I love the ideas of looking back to historical heroes to give us inspiration on how we can be today's heroes to move forward in… — Kirk Cameron
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the… — Albert Camus
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring… — Angela Carter
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the… — Michael N. Castle
Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour. — Fidel Castro
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy… — Fred Allen
If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the… — Dick Cheney
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose… — Winston Churchill
A home without books is a body without soul. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. — Georges Clemenceau
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in… — Isabel Allende
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see… — Tadao Ando
For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he… — Maya Angelou
There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. — Marie Antoinette

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