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History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

History develops, art stands still. - E.M. Forster

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

That great dust-heap called 'history'. - Augustine Birrell

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R. Covey

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

It's a very good historical book about history. - Dan Quayle

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up. - Ronald Wright

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. - John F Kennedy

If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur! - Unknown

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot. - Mark Twain

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History would be a wonderful thing - if it were only true. - Leo Tolstoy

A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. - Lakota Sioux Proverb

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. - Ted Koppei

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. - Fiona Shaw

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F Kennedy

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H G Wells

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. - Watchman Nee

A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions. - Steve Breen

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. - Arnold H. Glasow

There has never been a better time in history to be an environmental radiation researcher. - Steven Magee

History never repeats itself. The historians repeat each other. There is a wide difference. - Oscar Wilde

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? - John Guare

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Unknown

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane

Any living cell carries within it the experiences of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. - Max Delbrook

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. - Graham Greene

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Street League Skateboarding is the premier professional skateboarding league in the world, with the biggest prize money in history. - Rob Dyrdek

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. - Lauren Groff

Carry your courage in an easily accessible place, the way you do your cellphone or your wallet. Courage is the ultimate career move. - Anna Quindlen

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. - Donald Trump

He's ... probably the greatest corporate leader in the history of a major company... Somebody like that would be absolutely incredible. - Donald Trump

I know of no other man in our time, or indeed in recent history, who so convincingly demonstrated the power of the spirit over material things. - Stafford Cripps

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