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" If you think you have it tough, read history books. "
Bill Maher
Books
Tough
History
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" History is information. Memory is part of your identity. "
David Miliband
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History
Identity
" A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows. "
Annie Besant
Cast
History
Only
" My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate. "
Henry Kissinger
Together
Men
History
" Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. "
Plato
Vital
Poetry
Truth
" A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. "
Aristide Briand
Right
Justice
Battle
" History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Past
Events
History
" The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. "
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women
Darkest
History
" We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. "
Tony Blair
Rest
Evil
World
" Legend remains victorious in spite of history. "
Sarah Bernhardt
Victorious
History
Legend
" We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form. "
Serj Tankian
Living
Indigenous
History
" History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. "
B. C. Forbes
Become
History
Obstacles
" We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. "
Henry Ford
Today
Live
History
" After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history. "
Hans Kung
Communism
End
History
" In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from. "
Homaro Cantu
Time
You
History
" Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution. "
Anwar Sadat
History
Only
Solution
" No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day. "
Richard Jefferies
Sight
Men
Hands
" The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. "
A. Whitney Brown
Down
History
Only
" I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.' "
Tom Wolfe
Understanding
History
Life
" I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world. "
Daniel Silva
World
City
History
" Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. "
Eddie Vedder
Fast
Forward
History
" Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. "
George Eliot
History
City
Travel
" History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. "
Rosa Luxemburg
Teacher
True
Best
" There are some real memorable highlights in my history that, in my mind, are such milestones. Winning a national championship in college and being on the Olympic platform getting a gold medal. Visiting the Hall of Fame and going into the Hall of Fame. "
Anne Donovan
Winning
College
Gold
" Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. "
Kofi Annan
Poverty
Hope
World
" I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently. "
Lucas Neff
Loved
Struggle
History
" Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration. "
Ban Ki-moon
Opportunity
Technology
Work
" History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. "
Will Durant
Guessing
Rest
Prejudice
" That great dust-heap called 'history'. "
Augustine Birrell
History
Great
" History shows that there are no invincible armies. "
Joseph Stalin
Invincible
History
Shows
" History is Philosophy teaching by example. "
Thucydides
Philosophy
Example
History