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Quotations by Subject: History (17 quotes)

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Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), from his report to the King of France on Animal Magnetism, 1784
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.: James Geary, The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.: Fidel Castro (1927 - )
We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume.: gadgetgirl, gadgetgirl, 07-25-07
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.: Whitney Griswold, Address to students at Phillips Academy, 1952
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), Day of Affirmation address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966
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