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" I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. "
Friedrich August von Hayek
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History
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" I'm a big tradition guy. If you love this country and study history, then you will love Boston. "
Marcus Luttrell
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" History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. "
David Weinberger
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Events
Changes
" We are not makers of history. We are made by history. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Made
History
" In history, the millions win; that is democracy. "
Nawal El Saadawi
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History
" If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. "
Black Elk
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" For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. "
Virginia Woolf
Anonymous
History
Most
" If you think you have it tough, read history books. "
Bill Maher
Books
Tough
History
" History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. "
Lord Acton
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History
Burden
" If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind. "
Harri Holkeri
Heritage
History
Back
" It's a very good historical book about history. "
Dan Quayle
Historical
History
Book
" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "
Warren Buffett
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Game
People
" History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. "
Ellsworth Huntington
Record
History
Environment
" History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. "
Edward Gibbon
Little
History
Mankind
" From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. "
Charles Sumner
History
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Compromise
" The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who, in the name of science, think they can explain everything in terms of our early hominid ancestors or our genes, with their combination of high-handed tone and disregard for history. Such reductive speculation encourages a really empty scientism. "
Bernard Williams
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Think
Science
" The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. "
Peter L. Berger
Changing
History
Past
" If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends. "
Nina Garcia
Fashion
History
Style
" The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster. "
Ludwig von Mises
Been
Disaster
Source
" History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. "
Konrad Adenauer
Sum Total
Been
History
" We have that storytelling history in country and bluegrass and old time and folk music, blues - all those things that combine to make up the genre. It was probably storytelling before it was songwriting, as far as country music is concerned. It's fun to be a part of that and tip the hat to that. You know, and keep that tradition alive. "
Chris Stapleton
Time
Fun
Hat
" Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption. "
Jill Lepore
Grace
God
Fall
" If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. "
Carter G. Woodson
Race
Thought
History
" The people who have really made history are the martyrs. "
Aleister Crowley
Made
History
People
" I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. "
Maya Angelou
Time
History
Because
" Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. "
Conor Oberst
American
Think
Our
" Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan. "
Sachin Tendulkar
History
Special
Tough
" History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. "
Will Durant
Guessing
Rest
Prejudice
" 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
Men
Heart
Run
" Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. "
Albert Camus
History
Encounter
Happy
" Most of the fiction on the California Gold Rush makes it sound like one grand, boyish adventure. However, when you read the real history, you realize that it wasn't that way at all. "
Laurence Yep
Adventure
You
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