951 private quotes tagged history

“When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.” — Robert Anton Wilson

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“The history of the world is the world's court of justice.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.” — Franklin P. Adams

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“The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.” — Francis Bacon

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“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” — Harry S. Truman

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“There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” — Charles Darwin

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“The history of art is the history of revivals.” — Samuel Butler

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“Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Assassination has never changed the history of the world.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.” — Mason Cooley

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“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.” — Anatole France

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“I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.” — Pablo Picasso

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