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" 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

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" Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. "

" You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. "

" I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances. "

" I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. "

" Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them. "

Norodom Sihanouk

" OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. "

" Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends. "

" History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. "

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

" It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. "

" Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. "

Francis Cabot Lowell

" The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. "

" Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. "

Queen Elizabeth II

" It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. "

" History is moving the furniture around in the house of mankind just about everywhere but the U.S.A. Things have changed, except here, where people come and go through the rooms of state, and everything looks shabbier by the day, and lethargy eats away at the upholstery like an acid fog, and the walls reverberate with meaningless oratory. "

James Howard Kunstler

" Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not. "

" 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

" The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. "

" Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral. "

" Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. "

Winston Churchill

" All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary. "

" India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. "

" 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. "

" Books are humanity in print. "

Barbara Tuchman

" In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" No entity in the history of the world has collected more information about you than Google. My office wants to know what exactly Google does with all of the information it's gathering. "

" I don't care about history; all I care about is winning. "

" What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. "

" It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. "