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We cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

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

Peace is preferable to a place in history. - Justo P Benitez

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. - Gertrude Stein

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - William Lyon Mackenzie King

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

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. - Henry James

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

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling

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

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

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

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney

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

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

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

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx

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

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

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

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

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth. - Jim Harrison

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. - Stephen Hawking