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"266 History Quotes

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

Man Learned Past History
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History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

History Slow pulse Man counted In years
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History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnerving flows towards her goal. History knows her way. She makes no mistakes.

History knows No scruples No hesitation Her goals
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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress

Expect me First prince In history To have
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I made history with Nigeria to feature in the country's maiden World Cup game.The icing on the cake was a 3-0 victory over Bulgaria.

Made history Country's maiden World cup Victory
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There’s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others.

Living life Make history Best way Help others
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

History Guide Perilous times We
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I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.

Think Need History Love
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Never in the history of this country since the civil war has Nigerians been as divided as they are today
Never The history This country Civil war
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Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.

Civilization Center World History
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To me, this is about preserving history and making it available to everyone.

Preserving History Available Everyone
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I want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself.

Want history Remember me Black woman Be elected
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To paint, to write, to engage in politics—these are not merely ‘sublimations’; here we have aims that are willed for their own sakes. To deny it is to falsify all human history.

Paint Write Falsify History
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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Destruction Past Greatest Crimes
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It remains an irrefutable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

Irrefutable law History That contemporaries A recognition
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In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Ancient times No statistics Fall back On lies
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No real change in history can be achieved by discussions.

Real Change History Discussions
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We're going to make history in Florida.

We're going Make history
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Demand your school board change curriculum to include Black history/literature/culture.

Demand School board Change curriculum Black history
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I encourage everyone to read about M.K.O Abiola and his contribution to our history.He was an accomplished businessman who took the plunge into politics.

Encourage everyone To read His contribution Our history
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Lessons History Good thing Clever
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

History Guessing Rest Prejudice
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We raise up and center the losses suffered by Indigenous People as a central piece of our collective history.

Raise up The losses Indigenous people Central piece
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History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.

History Excellent Few Pupils
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If ideas do not determine history, inventions do; and inventions are determined by ideas.

Ideas History Inventions Determined
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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

History Manage Men Money
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The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

History Country Heart Man
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History is but the polemics of the victor.

History Polemics Victor
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Man Great Lifetime History
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That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history

Man Hope Inspiration History
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Our past has gone into history.

Past Gone Victory
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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.

History Art People Created
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The history of liberty is a history of resistance
History Liberty Resistance
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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

History Cause Right Soul
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Changes History Great Principles
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Thing History Repeat Itself
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The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

History Human Nature Ignorance
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STORY is more than half of the word HISTORY. And that’s no accident.

Story Word History Accident
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For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn’t be more wrong.

Think Progress History Wrong
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In every era, there are only one or two moments when nations come together and reach agreements that make history, because they change the course of history.

Era Nations History Change
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History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.

History Gossip Truth Lost
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History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

History Repeats Farce Itself
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I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality

Mythology History Truth Reality
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Very often history is a means of denying the past.

History Means Denying Past
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Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule

Current History Majority Rule
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Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

Learn History Doomed Repeat
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I do believe Africans must document their history.

Do believe Must document Their history
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To better understand the complexity and significance of West African history, there is no better thing to do than to go to Freetown.

Better understand The complexity Significance History
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What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other people's feelings?

Historical Biography Peoples' Feelings
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So much history..framed by heartbreak, tears and hope Then more heartbreak.If anything, this history confirms that this is OUR country.

Much history Framed by Heartbreak Tears
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