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“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'”
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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“Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.”
— H. L. Mencken
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“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
— Karl Marx
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“History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.”
— Robert Anton Wilson
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“I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.”
— Dalai Lama
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“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”
— Ronald Reagan
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“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”
— Stephen Hawking
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“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
— Voltaire
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“History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.”
— Voltaire
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“History, a distillation of rumour.”
— Thomas Carlyle
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“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.”
— Franz Kafka
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“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
— Mark Twain
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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
— Thomas Carlyle
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“What we do in life, echoes in eternity.”
— Maximus
Source:
Gladiator, 2000. Film.
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“History will be kind to me; for I intend to write it.”
— Winston Churchill
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“I think the materialist conception of history is valid.”
— Christopher Hitchens
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“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”
— Karl Marx
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“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
— H. G. Wells
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“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
— Thomas Carlyle
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“The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.”
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.”
— Abdul Kalam
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