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We cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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

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

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

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

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. - Will Rogers

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

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

The history of Scotland is one of theology tempered by homicide. - Ivor Brown

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

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. - Donald Trump

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

I love hockey because of the respect for history and for the game itself. - George Vecsey

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

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

There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. - Noam Chomsky

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. - Warren Buffett

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

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

In the whole history of technology it would be difficult to find a greater single advance than this. - L.T.C. Rolt

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

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

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

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's Gift. That's why we call it the 'Present.' - Bill Keane

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

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

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

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

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe

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

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

Peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country with a simple oath, we affirm old traditions, and make new beginnings. - George W. Bush

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

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. - Bertrand Russell