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The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.

What is past is prologue.

We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth. Fustel de

If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

Perhaps the attempt to achieve grace by identification with the animals was the most sensitive thing which was tried in the whole bloody history of religion .

The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

Each day is a drive through history.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Don't do business with anyone who has a history of suing people.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

[Read] anything but history,.. for history must be false.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

History is more or less bunk.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But then you begin to understand that the reward of merit is not life's business.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

There is no creature so perfect in wisdom and knowledge but may learn something for time present, and to come, by times past.

The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide.

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

All Cretans are liars.