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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
P. J. O'Rourke
History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.
Will Durant
The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
Harry S. Truman
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Chinua Achebe
I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
Pat Robertson
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. Kennedy
I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.
Dalai Lama
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David Thoreau
One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house.
Rodney Dangerfield
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
Mason Cooley
We of the twentieth century should not allow ourselves to think vaguely of the Middle Ages as a benighted or shadowy period when life and the people who constituted it had scarcely anything in common with ourselves. In reality the men of the Middle Ages were moved by the same emotions and impulses as our own, and their lives presented the same incongruous mixture of nobility and baseness.
Robert Huntington Fletcher, A Hi
If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.
Strom Thurmond
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
Washington Irving
In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.
Aung San Suu Kyi
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams
History should be written as philosophy.
Voltaire
It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
Audre Lorde
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry.
Ted Nugent
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
George Eliot
