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I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together. — Alice Walker

The Offshore Wind Energy Act could be not only a jobs creator, but also a history maker. — Martin O'Malley

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history. — John Andrew Rice

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward. — Theodore White

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. — Pablo Picasso

Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials. — Ethan Suplee

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. — Ernest Dimnet

The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves. — Malcolm X

What man is, only history tells. — George Mosse

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call? — Brad Meltzer

Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word "eugenics" was said only once. — A.E. Samaan

If history only remembers one in a thousand of us, then that future will be filled with stories of who we were and what we did. — Electronic Arts

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man. — Albert Einstein

History reveals there is no moral high ground; there is only perspective. We often exhibit the same behaviors for which we condemn others. — Steve Maraboli

Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III. — Kate Williams

Truth is only relative to those that ignore hard evidence. — A.E. Samaan

I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields. — Woody Allen

Isolated in the attic, Anne could only examine her own history and her own conscience, and try to locate the wellspring of her sadness and her rage. — Francine Prose

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. — William Hazlitt

There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances. — Honore De Balzac

History is only gossip. — Oscar Wilde

I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit. — Renee Fleming

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid — Lucian Of Samosata

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice. — Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple. — Ralph Webster

In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war. — Will Durant

Those only are happy ... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness,
a crisis in my mental history — John Stuart Mill

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is. — William Faulkner

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present. — Chris Marker

History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith. — Rousas John Rushdoony

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond De Goncourt

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. — James A. Garfield

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. — Marshall McLuhan

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten. — Henry Adams

Regard for the past only extends to its outward forms. — Henrik Bering

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris. — Madeleine M. Kunin

Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past. — Sigmund Freud

To rewrite history on the bases of hypotheses which have not materialized is not only a fruitless task, but, in my eyes, meaningless. — Jean Monnet

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history. — Hannah Arendt

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing. — Aldous Huxley

The only thing we learn from history, I am afraid, is that we do not learn from history. — Ron Paul

It takes only a few seconds to make history new again. — Amity Shlaes

I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself. — Ethel Waters

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. — Etienne Gilson

My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man. — Barry Hannah

The Goddess of History looked down to earth. Only through the hottest fires can purification be achieved. — Anthony Doerr

SO YOU ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO REJECT MY DIVINITY! - Caligula, 37 CE. — Joseph Shellim

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. — Pierre Schaeffer

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism with faith. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. — Albert Camus

If you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before 'Mad Men' explored that area of advertising. — Ben Feldman

I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention. — Michel De Montaigne

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events. — Antoine Rivarol

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. — William Graham Sumner

The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success. — Richard Flanagan

The old shepherd was right: The only solution was to forget a part of uncertainty and create a new history for oneself. — Paulo Coelho

The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. — Irving R. Kaufman

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in. — Kay Boyle

It is only a woman who can make a man feel like a 'superhero' or 'inadequate'.
Its her attention and admiration that a man desperately seeks! — Sanjai Velayudhan

In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in. — Jeff Cooper

the only man in modern history to successfully kidnap a commanding general. Paddy — Christopher McDougall

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm a student of history. Revolutions only get names after it's clear who won. — Wilson Rawls

The only thing that's really new is the history you don't know. — Harry Truman

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape. — Barack Obama

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. — A. Whitney Brown

What man is, only his history tells. — Wilhelm Dilthey

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose. — J. H. Plumb

There is properly no history; only biography. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it. — Leon Redbone

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible. — Anderson Cooper

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner. — Claudio Magris

For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few. — Marco Rubio

We are only writing the history of our time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world, The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals — Bob Wright

India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history. — Gary Weiss

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom. — Vishal Mangalwadi

The only history that matters is the history we know. — Ezra Pound

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid. — Steve Berry

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma. — Ruud Gullit

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside. — John F. Kennedy

There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. — Peter Greenaway

Only give them history books. Men should read nothing else. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Simplicity could only have been bought at a great price in accuracy. — Ramsay MacMullen

Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians. — Joseph J. Ellis

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

It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change. — Blaise Pascal

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back. — Seth Klarman

And history felt like a conjuring trick. All of this had been in plain view the entire time, but only now did the magician allow Joey to see it all. — Jay Bell

Only if we understand our past, can we move forward to a brighter future. — Barbara Post-Askin

We view the past, and achieve our understanding of the past, only through the eyes of the present — E.H. Carr

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other. — Terry Pratchett

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass. — Isaac Asimov

We don't know history. We only know what has been written about it. — Marty Rubin

You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out. — Ernest Cline

The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours. — Tom Stoppard