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136 quotesCrimes 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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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Photography
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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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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If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Writers and Writing
Peter Handke
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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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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Freedom
Georg Hegel
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A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
History and Historians
Robert Heinlein
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A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
History and Historians
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
History and Historians
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Greatness
Leigh Hunt
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A woman's life is a history of the affections.
Affection
Washington Irving
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Literature
Henry James
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Dreams
Thomas Jefferson
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Government
Thomas Jefferson
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The history of a people is found in its songs.
Music
George Jellinek
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Slander
Samuel Johnson
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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
Law and Lawyers
John Keats
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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Life and Living
John F. Kennedy
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Opinions
John Maynard Keynes
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun