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There is no better teacher than history in determining the future... There are answers worth billions of dollars in 30$ history book. — Charles T. Munger

Today is the first day in history.

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The Bible is a book of Science. Secular Humanism is a religion of mythology. — Michael J. Findley

Great men are the inspired texts of that divine Book of Revelations, whereof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History. — Thomas Carlyle

Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine. — Brad Jensen

The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book. — Tony Ardizzone

I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose. — Santosh Kalwar

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. — Lynn Abbey

History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy. — Albert Camus

The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history. — Charles Colson

And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn't mention us — Regina Spektor

With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing. — Keisha Buchanan

Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less. — Myra Pollack Sadker

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history. — Vincent Bugliosi

The book was an instrument of both repression and liberation — Anders Rydell

I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history. — Nolan Bushnell

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend. — John Tillotson

Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books. — Riff Raff

Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?"
"What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by heart, we can just ask you. — J.K. Rowling

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college. — James McBride

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books. — Alan Shepard

Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain. — Ani DiFranco

A book brings its own history to the reader. — Alberto Manguel

When I was a teenager, I read the bible cover-to-cover, and I found the Old Testament, it's a pretty bloody history book. — Billy Bob Thornton

The Airwitch had gone from reading nothing in his life to never stopping, buying every novel or history book he could get his hands on. — Susan Dennard

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent. — John Robbins

History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. — F. M. Powicke

To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well. — Bernard-Henri Levy

Yesterday is the history chapter in the book of life, isn't it time you turned the page? — Rob Liano

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

this book, giving voice to what is so basic among men and women throughout history, I have translated it "the Quester."] — Eugene H. Peterson

But I see history as a book with many pages
and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning. — George H. W. Bush

I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history — Muhammad Ali

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God. — Adrian Rogers

I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics. — Judy LaMarsh

History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book. — Amit Chaudhuri

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read. — Imre Kertesz

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson. — Frank-Walter Steinmeier

It's a very good historical book about history. — Dan Quayle

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy. — John Cleese

Herman Cain was unaware that China is a nuclear power. And I said to myself, 'Hey, Herman, how about making an unwanted advance on a history book?' — David Letterman

It's a terrific book and I can't wait for the movie," says Phillip Adams on Late Night Live, ABC Radio National. — John Holliday

Since the dawn of time every one will die,
Let the history books note my death with loyalty at heart. — Wen Tianxiang

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right. — Judy LaMarsh

Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

To speak like a book I once read, wet weather is the narrative, and fine days are the episodes, of our country's history; — Thomas Hardy

There's no excuse for a dull book, a dull museum, or a dull speech. Especially when dealing with history - the most fascinating subject I know. — Richard Norton Smith

If you would be remembered, write a book worth the reading or live a life worth the writing about. — Benjamin Franklin

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony. — George Saintsbury

I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator in all of them. — Guy Gavriel Kay

But every living soul is a book of their own history, which sits on the ever-growing shelf in the library of human memories. — Jack Gantos

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history. — Edna Ferber

... books are a very recent means of expression in the broad sweep of history, capable of changing the world and toppling tyrants. — Nina George

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted. — Ken Ham

Hitler learned his eugenics from the infamous "Baur-Fischer-Lenz" book that documented American and British eugenics. — A.E. Samaan

Before history is written down in books, it is written in courage. — George W. Bush

When you have a Green Lantern mixing with a foil like Batman, you get scenes that are comic-book history. There's the epicness of it all. — Jim Lee

This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: — Siddhartha Mukherjee

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress. — Stanley Baldwin

My daughter will be reading about Pat Buchanan in a history book someday, and I am hanging out fist-bumping with him and joking with him. — Willie Geist

The Bible is the greatest literature of all times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created. — Paul Smith

[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history. — Ralph Nader

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. — David McCullough

When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — Daniel Handler

Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things. — Jim Crace

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay

Indeed, it occasionally seems as if the book has attempted to inoculate itself against the prospect of actually being read. — Roger Moorhouse

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. — Anatole France

I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed. — L. Ron Hubbard

Each book has a secret history of ways and means. — Henry Ward Beecher

Know your genre. Know your history. Read a book. — Brian Keene

It could be a work of fiction, or history, or both - a long book exploding out of this central place in a hundred directions. — Stephen King

I wanted to do a book on donuts...Maybe this dream will be book number three, after the Fault in Our Starburst: a Brief History of the Yellow Ones. — Sammy Rhodes

The book is the most technologically advanced invention in the history of humankind. — Kambiz Mostofizadeh

'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history! — Alison Weir

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes. — Spencer Wells

Only one president in this book was a supervillain. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Chester A. Arthur, the Lex Luthor of the American Presidency. — Daniel O'Brien

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead. — Niall Ferguson

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books. — Carice Van Houten

There's no crying in the rank book. — William Morton

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth. — Spyridon Marinatos

Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it in a history book. — Patrick O'Brian

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win. — Harold S. Kushner

The Bible is a history book. — Amar'e Stoudemire

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book. — Dorothy Parker

Her hair is full of icy wind and daylight. She is every princess, every queen, in the history book. — Lauren DeStefano

I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there. — Zach Braff

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel

My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. — Stephen Hawking

For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published. — Alan Furst

I paid my bill. Save your fucking pennies for a gun and a history book ... — Vanessa Veselka

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. — Monica Lewinsky

The word 'algebra' derives from Al-Khawarizmi's book title "al-jabr", meaning "completion"; balancing both sides to find a solution — Firas Alkhateeb

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. — Sam Cooke