Maya Angelou Quotes, Past Quotes, History Quotes

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Two Quotes , History Quotes

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.

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I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Past Quotes , History Quotes

Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

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History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Men Quotes , History Quotes

Kings are the slaves of history.

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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Strong Quotes , History Quotes

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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It's so damned humiliating.

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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Men Quotes , History Quotes