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| Abba Eban | History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. | |
| Aldous Huxley | That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. | |
| Andre Maurois | We owe to the middle ages the two worst inventions of humanity -- gunpowder and romantic love. | |
| Arnold Toynbee | An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide. | |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Assassination has never changed the history of the world. | |
| Clarence Darrow (1857 - 19385) | History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. | |
| Dick Gregory (1932 - ) | We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. | |
| Don Device (1965 - 1993) | History informs us it is always different this time | |
| Georg Hegel | We learn from history that we do not learn from history. | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. | |
| George Santayana (1863 - 1952) | Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. | |
| Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972) | The only thing new in the world is the history we don't know. | |
| Henry Ford (1863 - 1947) | History is more or less bunk. | |
| John Alejandro King a.k.a. The Covert Comic | It must have been fun being the first humans, setting all those new world records every day. | |
| Lee Simonson | Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. | |
| Leonard Louis Levinson | History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. | |
| Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) | Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821) | History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) | In analyzing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial. | |
| Stephen L. Millich (1941 - ) | History proves that the only thing that we have learned is that we haven't. | |
| Stephen Millich (1941 - ) | What we learn from history is that we never learn. | |
| Terence (185 - 159 B.C.) | Nothing is said that has not been said before. | |
| Tom Stoppard (1937 - ) | If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. | |
| Voltaire | God in all of his omnipotence can't change the past. That's why he created historians. | |
| W. R. Inge (1860 - 1954) | Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. | |
| Will Durant | One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. | |
| Will Rogers (1879 - 1935) | My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat. - (part Cherokee) | |
| Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) | History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. |
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