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Results of search for Quote or Author: history - Page 2 of 18
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
History is more or less bunk.
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Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
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Eddie Izzard
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
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Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
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William H. Borah
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
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Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
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C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
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