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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian -- ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton Strachey
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
Jefferson Davis
Events tend to recur in cycles...
W. Clement Stone
No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.
Alan Dershowitz
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Aldous Huxley
Nihil est in intellectu, quod non fuerit in historia, et omne, quod fuit in historia, deberet esse in intellectu.Nothing is in intellect which has not been in history, and everything that was in history should also be in intellect.
Gustav Spet, Wisdom or Reason, 1
It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'
Daniel Craig
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
Lyndon B. Johnson
History is the devil's scripture.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett
History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford
I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.
Thomas Jefferson
It's tough to stay married. My wife kisses the dog on the lips, yet she won't drink from my glass.
Rodney Dangerfield
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Eldridge Cleaver
In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
Hugo Black
