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

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. - Oscar Wilde

Epochodor: The smell of history found at museums - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg W F Hegel

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

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. - Ben Casnocha

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

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James A. Baldwin

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

History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John W. Gardner

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

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

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. - Lord Acton

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. - Mark Twain

If the cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. - Stephen Covey

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

I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love. - Waris Ahluwalia

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

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

A library should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. - Norman Cousins

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

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant

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

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

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

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

If we don't know our own history, we will simply have to endure all the same mistakes, sacrifices, and absurdities all over again. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. - Renata Adler

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. - Aldous Huxley