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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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