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" Human history in essence is the history of ideas. "

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" Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. "

" It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. "

Henry Kissinger

" Natural history is not about producing fables. "

David Attenborough

" All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds. "

Richard Brautigan

" We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind. "

Juan Antonio Samaranch

" Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. "

" September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world. "

" The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality. "

" I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it. You need to take counsel of history but never be imprisoned by it. "

Richard Holbrooke

" History is a set of lies agreed upon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. "

Carter G. Woodson

" The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. "

Barbara Tuchman

" As history has shown, pure science research ultimately ends up applying to something. We just don't know it at the time. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. "

" The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad. "

Wynton Marsalis

" The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. "

Edwin Powell Hubble

" No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. "

Richard M. Nixon

" The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. "

Irving R. Kaufman

" If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace. "

Ludwig von Mises

" History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. "

" I love science and that time in history when science and the humanities were the same thing. "

" Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point. "

" History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. "

" The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results. "

" The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. "

Queen Elizabeth II

" History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. "

Konrad Adenauer

" The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. "