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    The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

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Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

by Gustav Flaubert Found in: History Quotes,
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The long historian of my country's woes.

The long historian of my country's woes.

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History -- its what those bitter old men write.

History -- its what those bitter old men write.

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The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.

by Jonathan Swift Found in: History Quotes,
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

by Henry James Found in: History Quotes,
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The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.

by Nikita S. Khrushchev Found in: History Quotes,
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The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the read more

The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.

by Ashurnasirpal Found in: History Quotes,
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With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed.

With the Kennedys, the genes are in magnificent alignment, but the stars are demonstrably crossed.

by John Carman Found in: History Quotes,
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No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human read more

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

by Henry Brooks Adams Found in: History Quotes,
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