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Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past. — Brad Meltzer

History was like looking into others' lives, learning how they lived, what they did, how they thought, and even how they loved. — Max Vos

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs ... — H.G.Wells

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars
glued together with magic and music and words. — Anita Krishan

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

History is made by people. And the majority of people are arseholes. Which is I suppose why the majority of history has been so disastrous. — Ben Elton

History is the memory of a nation — Thomas Sowell

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man. — Henry Ford

I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind. — Mitt Romney

In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine. — Richie Gerber

With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy? — Neil Cavuto

It's the non-conformist who gives color to history. — Dorothy Fuldheim

I'm convinced that none of the important achievements in human history were accomplished before ten-thirty or eleven in the morning!"17 — Bob Ward

I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history. — Russell D. Moore

Christianity has done more to elevate the status of women than any other movement in history. — Stasi Eldredge

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation. — Bobby Jindal

Until quite recently women's histories were largely overlooked but in the wake of feminism there has been increasing interest in retrieving them. — Alison Weir

In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution. — Robert Wright

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none. — Pyotr Kropotkin

I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things. — Wesley Morris

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it. — Edmund Burke

The beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it. — Marie Corelli

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets. — Sarah Vowell

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively

You don't rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present. — V.T. Davy

History - the non-fiction version - must inform the fiction to make it truthful; too much of it and your genres are colliding. — Jon Weisman

History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill — Ron Mayes

I can't imagine anybody who has spoken to more, or presented more non-famous people on television in the history of the world. — Jerry Springer

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Most non-Christian philosophies consider history to be the enemy of truth. Feminism shares this suspicion of history. — Monica Migliorino Miller

Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear; they say what voters want to say. — C.L. Gammon

They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints. — Alison Weir

The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States. — Edward Said

If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own. — Ted Harts

The Sleepin' Fox Catches No Poultry. — P.J. Parker

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education. — Richard Livingstone

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

The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty. — Nathaniel Branden

Detention without trial is history in Malaysia. — Najib Razak

All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldn't read it the way you read history or science. — Leslie Fiedler

Have you ever noticed some of the worst sicknesses in history have a lyrical sound to them? Words like malaria, diarrhea, cholera — Emma Chase

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre. — Brenton Thwaites

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

Freedom works, it turns out; the Constitution codified and structured freedom at a level unparalleled in world history. — Oliver

The Thames is liquid history. — John Burns

It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'. — Idries Shah

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic. — Nikita Khrushchev

What was the point of living through history if you didn't record it? — Tatjana Soli

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history. — Kushal Pal Singh

how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty - which was to step aside and vanish into history. — Frank Herbert

It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full. — Auliq Ice

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures. — Gary Wolf

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now. — Ken Burns

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries. — Alan Furst

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead. — Arnold J. Toynbee

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. — Charles Frankel

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

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are! — H.L. Mencken

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. — Stephen Ambrose

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

Civilization - a word that simply means "living in cities ... "
Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses. — Tom Standage