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108 quotesThings have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Change
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
Women
George Eliot
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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
Minorities
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
Ideas
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Language is the archives of history.
Language
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our best history is still poetry.
History and Historians
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Poverty and The Poor
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is properly no history; only biography.
Biography
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Wine
Clifton Fadiman
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Might does not make right, it only makes history.
History and Historians
Jim Fiebig
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
Biography
Louis Fischer
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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
History and Historians
Gustave Flaubert
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History is more or less bunk.
History and Historians
Henry Ford
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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.
Business
Henry Ford
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
Ability
Henry Ford
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
History and Historians
Anatole France
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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Crime and Criminals
Jean Genet
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
History and Historians
Edward Gibbon
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He is the purest figure in history. [About George Washington]
History and Historians
William E. Gladstone
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The history of mankind is his character.
History and Historians
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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News is the first rough draft of history.
News
Philip L. Graham
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
Past
John Guare
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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
History and Historians
Philip Guedalla
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Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
Love
Novalis Hardenberg
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The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
History and Historians
Friedrich Hegel
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun