The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn’t just how you like it, think about how things used to be.... Here are some facts about the 1500s: History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford Stand up and walk out of your history. - Phil McGraw There is no reason to repeat bad history. - Eleanor Holmes Norton Peace is preferable to a place in history. - Justo P Benitez 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 R. Covey If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher It's a very good historical book about history. - Dan Quayle History is a vision of God's creation on the move. - Arnold J. Toynbee History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France Study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. - Lakota Sioux Proverb It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West 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 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 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 Once in a lifetime the longed-for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme. - Seamus Heaney 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 Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane 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 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 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 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 He's ... probably the greatest corporate leader in the history of a major company... Somebody like that would be absolutely incredible. - Donald Trump 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 History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners. - Dale Carnegie 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 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 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 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 see also History Section 1910 Street Light Replacement 1920 Strongwoman 1934 Modern Home Round Table |
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