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Quotations by Subject: History (17 quotes)

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Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.: Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 09/88
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.: Richard Nixon
Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze.: Unknown
History is bunk.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.: Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

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