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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

I do not think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

Value people on their potential, not on their history.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.

WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it is inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.;Christopher Hitchens;history 34242;Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.;Gustave Flaubert;history 34243;The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.;Noam Chomsky;history 34244;Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.;Elie Wiesel;history 34245;Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can not remember Tell the things you can not forget that History puts a saint in every dream.;Tom Waits;history 34246;There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.;Michelle Obama;history 34247;President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.;Newt Gingrich;history 34248;History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.;Theodor Adorno;history 34249;So I am OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.;Sidney Poitier;history 34250;Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.;Norman Borlaug;history 34251;History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.;Joseph Conrad;history 34252;In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.;Newt Gingrich;history 34253;I think the materialist conception of history is valid.;Christopher Hitchens;history 34254;Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.;Paul Ryan;history 34255;Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.;Jerry Saltz;history 34256;Imagine it is 1981. You are an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You are also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to art history just is not that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.;Jerry Saltz;history 34257;Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.;Jerry Saltz;history 34258;I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history, that he redefined the idea of beauty, that he combined painting, sculpture, photography, and everyday life with such gall, and that he was interested in, as he put it, the ability to conceive failure as progress.

Yeah, I read history. But it Does not make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

Black history is American history.

I did not do improv in college, I never performed, I did not do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.