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" That great dust-heap called 'history'. "

Augustine Birrell

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" Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. "

Dante Alighieri

" There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. "

Claude Vorilhon

" I was living in a terrible time when people were being accused of being communists, and they attacked the movie industry, especially the writers. People couldn't work if they were on the blacklist. The studios banned them. It was the most onerous period in movie history. I don't think we have ever had a period so dark as that. "

" History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. "

Winston Churchill

" The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization. "

" Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. "

" History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be. "

John Henrik Clarke

" If we open our history books, we shall see that the laws, for all that they are or should be contracts amongst free men, have rarely been anything but the tools of the passions of a few men or the offspring of a fleeting and haphazard necessity. "

Cesare Beccaria

" People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. "

" I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn. "

" Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change. "

Howard Rheingold

" The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. "

" Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history. "

" History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. "

David Weinberger

" Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often. "

" The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. "

" The Gospel is not a theory; the Gospel is not a philosophy or an idea; the Gospel is not a way of thinking or feeling. The Gospel is an event in history. "

" I loved history in my school days, and I have always been a voracious reader. But in India, you end up doing MBA, engineering or medicine. "

" I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds; they're as much part of our history as the rural barn. "

" If you think you have it tough, read history books. "

" Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. "

Christopher Columbus

" Throughout human history, some of our most influential inventors, entrepreneurs, and leaders have had disabilities. For example, Bill Gates, Sir Richard Branson, and Charles Schwab are all dyslexic, while scientist Stephen Hawking has used a wheelchair for decades. "

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

" There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money. "

" Strip malls are history. "

" Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history. "

" It would be unwise for the modern Republican Party to come across as hostile to immigration. That has been the losing position in American history for 200 years. "

Grover Norquist

" We learned the value of research in World War II. "

" Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play. "

" If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. "