Adrienne Rich Quotes, History Quotes, Clay 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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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , People Quotes , History Quotes

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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We are all fools in love.

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If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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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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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

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There is properly no history, only biography.

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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , History Quotes , Presidential Quotes

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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History paints the human heart.

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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

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The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

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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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Tags : A. L. Rowse Quotes , History Quotes , Tyranny Quotes

The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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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

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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