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

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" Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. "

" History is written by the victors. "

Winston Churchill

" No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. "

" It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. "

" The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie. "

" As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength. "

Hubert de Givenchy

" Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart. "

" It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization. "

" I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America! "

" Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. "

A. J. P. Taylor

" If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again. "

" Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. "

" I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. "

Stephen Hawking

" The nation was awakened by that deafening shot. "

" Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. "

" The history of jazz lets us know that this period in our history is not the only period we've come through together. If we truly understood the history of our national arts, we'd know that we have mutual aspirations, a shared history, in good times and bad. "

Wynton Marsalis

" The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. "

" If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? "

Philip Zimbardo

" 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. "

" Revolutions are the locomotives of history. "

" A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. "

" Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. "

" 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

" 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

" After finishing the gymnasium in Muenchen with 9 years of Latin and 6 years of ancient Greek, history and philosophy, I decided to become a physicist. The great theoretical physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, an university colleague of my late father, advised me to begin with an apprenticeship in precision mechanics. "

" The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. "

" All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it. "

" The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. "