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The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
— Frank Herbert
Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.
— Karl Liebknecht
Philosophize: you are a mistress, part of a great hysterical you mean historical tradition.
— Lorrie Moore
The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.
— M.C. Halliday
Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.
— Jacques Barzun
Every great day has a story and a song!
— Faith Reese Martin
The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.
— Mao Tse-tung
Great job, you just executed Ben Franklin! - Otto Ray
— Monet Polny
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness
— Walter Benjamin
To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.
— Chris Womersley
Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.
— Philippa Gregory
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
— Antony Beevor
Tattooing is historical, cultural and a great form of art but it should always be safe for both the client and the tattoo practitioner.
— William Webb
The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.
— Thomas Paine
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
— George Orwell
As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.
— Jonathan Lethem
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.
— Oscar Wilde
This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.
— Paulo Freire
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.
— Samuel Johnson
It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.
— Jon Turteltaub
Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy.
— George H. W. Bush
I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself
— Peter The Great
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
— Arthur Erickson
