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We cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln

History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. - Karl Marx

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

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

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

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

You have to look at history as an evolution of society. - Jean Chretien

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

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

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

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

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

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters. - John Keats

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

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

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

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

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

Armor: 1. A knight gown; 2. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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