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3 December 2020 Enoch Powell

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

3 December 2020 David Hockney

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

3 December 2020 Winston Churchill

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

3 December 2020 Shimon Peres

The Jews’ greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We’re a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.

3 December 2020 Jerry Saltz

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

3 December 2020 Bo Bennett

Value people on their potential, not on their history.

3 December 2020 James K. Polk

Although… the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman

The Marine Corps is the Navy’s police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin’s.

3 December 2020 Richard M. Nixon

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

3 December 2020 Al Yankovic

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.

3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

3 December 2020 David Attenborough

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

3 December 2020 Alfred A. Montapert

The majority see the obstacles the few see the objectives history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.

3 December 2020 Friedrich Schiller

The history of the world is the world’s court of justice.

3 December 2020 Kevin Costner

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.

3 December 2020 Noam Chomsky

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

3 December 2020 John Bolton

I’m not sure history has ended.

3 December 2020 Erica Jong

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

3 December 2020 Enya

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

3 December 2020 Steven Spielberg

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn’t often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

3 December 2020 Barbara Kingsolver

There’s always a part of your nation’s history that you haven’t been told that… has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

3 December 2020 Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.

3 December 2020 Simon Wiesenthal

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

3 December 2020 Alan Cohen

Our history is not our destiny.

3 December 2020 Kenneth Scott Latourette

The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene.

3 December 2020 Sachin Tendulkar

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

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