“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
“History will be kind to me; for I intend to write it.”
“I came, I saw, I conquered.”
“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”
“History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.”
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
“Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.”
“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”
“The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.”
“I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.”
“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.”
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
“Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.”
“History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.”
“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”
“Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
“History, a distillation of rumour.”
“A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'”
“If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.”
“Human history in essence is the history of ideas.”
“I think the materialist conception of history is valid.”
“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.”