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History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Stand up and walk out of your history. - Phil McGraw

There is no reason to repeat bad history. - Eleanor Holmes Norton

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

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

The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher. - H L Mencken

Anybody can make history, only a great man can write it. - Oscar Wilde

The trouble with history is its dependence upon diplomats. - Gerald F Lieberman

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. - Edmund Burke

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

Study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill

Nowadays the clinical history too often weighs more than the man. - Martin H. Fischer

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Thomas Jefferson

Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West

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

All of history is fused with His meaning because history is HIS-story. - Ravi Zacharias

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. - John Barth

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

People are prisoners of their phones; that's why it's called a 'cell' phone. - Unknown

I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. - George Burns

My physician has become warden of my medically imprisoned body, pharmaceuticals the bars on my cell. - Grey E. Livingston

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. - Stephen Colbert

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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. - Aldous Huxley

How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. - Frank Zappa

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

The shoulders I stand on are broad and strong, full of history and courage and love. How about you? Whose shoulders are you standing on? - Molly Johnson

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

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners. - Dale Carnegie

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

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness. - Lewis B Smedes

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

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. - Ralph Waldo Emerson