"As soon as histories are properly told there……" — Walt Whitman

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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… — Ernest Borgnine
• None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us… — Ernest Renan
• A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of… — Franklin Pierce
• Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 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… — Don Kates
• Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work… — Peter Ackroyd
• The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings… — Johnnetta B. Cole
• Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in… — Charlton Heston
• I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of… — Martin Mull
• As a historian I understand how histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me and prove I… — Newt Gingrich
• It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an… — Plutarch

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