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" Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. "

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" When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased. "

" If you wanted to, you could write history in Haiku. "

" There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. "

" To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' "

" It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. "

Richard P. Feynman

" Koreans love to dance; they love to sing. If you actually know Koreans, you see how absurd the stereotype of the 'Asian robot' is. They love to laugh - they're very affectionate. Maybe because of their history of oppression, when they feel you are part of their tribe, they are intensely loyal. I love that about Koreans! "

" Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. "

David Cronenberg

" The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.' "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" 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. "

" 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

" An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. "

William Manchester

" The history of mankind is the history of ideas. "

Luigi Pirandello

" History tells us that a general can move and feed an army as efficiently as he likes, but the real litmus test is the battlefield. "

" I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy. "

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

" I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. "

" My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. "

Stephen Hawking

" From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. "

" That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. "

William McKinley

" The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. "

" Pakistanis can't trust. They've seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they're misguided by people in the name of Islam. They're told: 'Malala is not a Muslim, she's not in purdah, she's working for America.' "

Malala Yousafzai

" Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment. "

" History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. "

Philip Guedalla

History Repeats Itself

" I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. "

" I'm a firm believer that no matter how small an object is, you can find interesting things out about it and its history. "

" The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. "

" The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. "

Simon Wiesenthal

" Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves. "

" History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. "

" 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. "

" The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "