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Quotations by Subject: History (17 quotes)

Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America (1936)
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.: R. D. Laing
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, March 10, 2008
For aught that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I, sc. 1
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There is properly no history, only biography.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Some people make headlines while others make history.: Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine
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