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- For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
- J. W. Schopf
- Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
- G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
- History is more or less bunk.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
- 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.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- 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.
- William H. Borah
- Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
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