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Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.
— Patricia Leavy
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
— Ernest Dimnet
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
— Douglas Coupland
Most of us get our history through story.
— Yann Martel
After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.
— Condoleezza Rice
Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is ... it made us an is.
— Shelby Foote
With the history of us, a book wouldn't necessarily be the best thing.
— Keisha Buchanan
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
— Christian Lous Lange
History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.
— Paul Rusesabagina
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
— Milton Friedman
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.
— John F. Kennedy
If history has taught us anything, Arthur muses, it is that men with mustaches must never achieve positions of power.
— Tom Rachman
Each of us play a unique role in the history of life. What legacy do you want to live behind?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The sun shone on us, the water sparkled, the oar-blades dipped and we were gone. Gone to make history.
— Bernard Cornwell
The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything.
— Michael Lewis
Every Moment can be History of tomorrow but its upon us what to do with this Moment-Samar Sudha — Samar Sudha
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.
— Margaret MacMillan
Roughly 21,000 new brands are introduced worldwide per year, yet history tells us that more than 90% of them are gone from the shelf a year later.
— Martin Lindstrom
The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.
— Jean Houston
History teaches us that self-proclaimed authority makes the most mistakes. And is the best at covering them up." The
— Zygmunt Miloszewski
It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.
— Terence McKenna
In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.
— T. Boone Pickens
In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.
— Laura Schlessinger
I'm interested in the truth, but the stories tell us so much about the people throughout history as well.
— Skye Warren
History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.
— Thomas Jefferson
Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.
— Kristin Cashore
he can't see past his own history to let us have ours.
— Nicola Yoon
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.
— Lucy Larcom
In the future history will be made only by us.
— George W. Bush
There are many examples of men in history who could give us a better mirror after which to pattern ourselves
— Darius Bolton
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.
— Martin Luther
Stories about food are stories about us-our history and our values.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people ... We are a nation rich in rivers.
— Charles Kuralt
History has taught us that the idea of superpower is for a political maniac to design the art of control over other countries.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us. — Carl Sagan
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.
— Hilary Mantel
History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.
— Geoffrey Ward
The history of melancholia includes all of us.
— Charles Bukowski
Most of us would benefit greatly from recognizing and accepting the difference between our history and our destiny.
— Steve Maraboli
History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
— Gerald R. Ford
P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.
— C. Wright Mills
I think literature reveals more about us than history does.
— Susan Meissner
What history will say about us is of no importance; because we will be gone when the history judges about us.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
History make us smarter. Learn it before being to late.
— Ricardo Freire
Your resolve is unquestionable. Your character undeniable. Your history unparalleled. You've inspired us, all the way. You will again today.
— Donnie Wahlberg
And, let us not forget, the culmination of nearly five thousand years of continuous Chinese history.
— Max Brooks
We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.
— Thomas S. Monson
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
— E. O. Wilson
In other words, history teaches us to avoid the brand of naive empiricism that consists of learning from casual historical facts.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
History teaches us hope.
— Robert E.Lee
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
— Jeff VanderMeer
Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.
— Susan L. Taylor
Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.
— Dorothy Cotton
If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance "God".
— Jerry A. Coyne
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
— Gustave Flaubert
History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!
— James Howard Kunstler
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
— Ronald Reagan
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.
— Richard Stallman
Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.
— Lynn Townsend White Jr.
All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late.
— Kenneth Roberts
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
— Robert A. Heinlein
We were each of us trying; trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman.
— Amber Garibay
The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.
— Cyril Connolly
In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.
— Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.
— Arthur Goldberg
It's people like you who change history. People like mewe just let things happen to us. — Margaret Peterson Haddix
In the darkest days of European history, America stood close by us and today we stand close by America, nothing will ever be the same.
— Romano Prodi
We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
History teaches us that man learns nothing from history
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization
— Ludwig Von Mises
Few people can claim they are born into the right period of history. Most of us have to make do with the times we find ourselves in.
— Sally Gardner
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
— Guy Vanderhaeghe
We are history! everything we've ever been on the way to becoming us, we still are.
— Terry Pratchett
If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.
— Bernard Baruch
What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.
— Bertrand Piccard
History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.
— David Blunkett
