[World history as told by college students - mangled
moments of civilization from Term Papers and Exams...] History is written by the victors. - Niccolo Machiavelli Peace is preferable to a place in history. - Justo P Benitez Electoral College: Institute of higher yearning - Daffynitions joe-ks.com The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. - Oscar Wilde Pedestrian: a man whose son is home from college. - Unknown 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 If history repeats itself, I am so getting a dinosaur! - Unknown History is a vision of God's creation on the move. - Arnold J. Toynbee History repeats itself; historians repeat one another. - Rupert Brooke You have to look at history as an evolution of society. - Jean Chretien 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 You can lead a boy to college but you cannot make him think. - Elbert Hubbard A college education shows a man how little other people know. - T.C. Hailburton It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. - Ted Koppei The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S Truman A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. - Theodore Roosevelt History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. - Alexis de Tocqueville More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations. - John Barth If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. - Warren Buffett The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. - Robert M. Hutchins 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 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 How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is God's Gift. That's why we call it the 'Present.' - Bill Keane Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work. - Frank Zappa I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. - George Foreman 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 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 A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe 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 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 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 see also College & History Sections 18th Century History by College Students The Immaculate Contraption by Lionized College Students Medieval History by College Students Middle East History by College Students Nature Interpretations Pardon My French Post World War II History by College Students The Stoned Age & Judyism by College Students |
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