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September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
Tom Ford
Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.
Norman Borlaug
She was so fat that after she sat on someone's lap we had to look for him in the crack of her ass.
Rodney Dangerfield
Just because history is written by the victor does not necessarily mean that it is false. Therefore, revisionist history should always be suspect. Better still, all history should be suspect.
Colonel Brian D. Perry Sr., Susp
History never repeats itself ,as most people fear. People usually repeat history.
Divine Chikobvu, STEP ON THE CLO
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
My only thrill is self inflicted hickies.
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
Gustave Flaubert
My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.
Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.
Thomas Friedman
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed.
Kurt Vonnegut
There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
Garth Brooks
They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
Douglas MacArthur
Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
William O. Douglas
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
James Joyce, Ulysses, ch. 2,
James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.
James Baldwin
The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
Oscar Wilde
For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'
Rand Paul
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Pablo Picasso
