history ... ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just... well, things happening one after another.
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How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another 
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. 
Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history! 
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history. 
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdic... 
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all ... 
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands. 
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. 
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history 
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue... 
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top -- or on the bottom. I guess I'm som... 
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm some... 
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses... 
There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, ... 
By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account. 
History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, o... 
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth... 
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse. 
History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a stor... 
If you think about the history of the PC industry, the PC industry has essentially been nothing but ... 
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from ... 
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess ... 
I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some ... 
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has be... 
It was just one of those things in history that you did the right thing at the right time. 
I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations... 
No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about o... 
History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darne... 
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history... 
Just because history is written by the victor does not necessarily mean that it is false. Therefore... 
However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no pol... 
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, ... 
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if... 
I think the history of the world suggests if one studies the Romans, and one studies the early Greek... 
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domi... 
One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themsel... 
It is not observed in history that families improve with time. 
I have not much interest in anyone's personal history after the tenth year, not even my own. Whateve... 
There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen. 
Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a go... 
I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. 
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as... 
No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balan... 
As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've g... 
When you make it an issue, it does not just become an issue, but it also grows to become a history a... 
Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down ... 
She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite th...