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We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
Thabo Mbeki
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
Steve Jobs
When I was born, the doctor said to my father, I'm sorry, we did everything we could but he still pulled thru.
Rodney Dangerfield
The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.
Horatio Alger
She was so fat that she has a dress with a sign on the back that says caution wide load
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.
Leo Tolstoy
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any degree; only about as much as is used in the lowest kinds of poetry. Some penetration, accuracy, and coloring, will fit a man for the task, if he can give the application which is necessary.
Samuel Johnson
The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
Paul Valery
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Martin Scorsese
90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.
Colin Powell
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell
Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
Friedrich von Schiller
The Thames is liquid history.
John Burns
It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians.
George Santayana, The Life of Re
Might does not make right, it only makes history.
Jim Fiebig
