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- I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with… — Ernest Borgnine
- None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles… — Ernest Renan
- A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting… — Franklin Pierce
- Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. — Walt Whitman
- Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon
- ...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with… — Don Kates
- Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its… — Peter Ackroyd
- The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens. — Johnnetta B. Cole
- Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories. — Charlton Heston
- I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds,… — Martin Mull
- As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I was unimportant.… — Newt Gingrich