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3 December 2020 Mason Cooley

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

3 December 2020 Norman Mailer

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

3 December 2020 George Washington Carver

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

3 December 2020 Alan Greenspan

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

3 December 2020 Emily Blunt

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

3 December 2020 Lord Acton

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

3 December 2020 Paul Gauguin

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art’s audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

3 December 2020 James Dyson

China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn’t have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers – the kind of people the U.S. is built upon.

3 December 2020 H. G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

3 December 2020 Robert Anton Wilson

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce’s view of Everyman as victim.

3 December 2020 Pat Robertson

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

3 December 2020 Martin Luther

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

3 December 2020 Camille Paglia

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan’s bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

3 December 2020 Joe Biden

There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

3 December 2020 Abba Eban

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

3 December 2020 Will Durant

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

3 December 2020 John Podhoretz

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

3 December 2020 Ricky Williams

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it’s extra special to be a part of that.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

3 December 2020 Thomas Merton

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

3 December 2020 Benito Mussolini

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

3 December 2020 Edward Gibbon

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

3 December 2020 Carlos Santana

If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that’s what it’s all about.

3 December 2020 Walter Bagehot

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

3 December 2020 Louis L'Amour

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

3 December 2020 David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

3 December 2020 Rachel Bilson

I’m the fourth generation to be in show business. It’s pretty neat it’s nice to have that family history.

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