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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
Freedom
Georg Hegel

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A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
History and Historians
Robert Heinlein

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A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
History and Historians
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
History and Historians
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Greatness
Leigh Hunt

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A woman's life is a history of the affections.
Affection
Washington Irving

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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Literature
Henry James

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Dreams
Thomas Jefferson

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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Government
Thomas Jefferson

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The history of a people is found in its songs.
Music
George Jellinek

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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Slander
Samuel Johnson

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I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.
Law and Lawyers
John Keats

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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Life and Living
John F. Kennedy

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Opinions
John Maynard Keynes

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History is a better guide than good intentions.
History and Historians
Jeane Kirkpatrick

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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
War
Arthur Koestler

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In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
Louis Kronenberger

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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
Image
Milan Kundera

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The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
Oppression
Meridel Le Sueur

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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
History and Historians
Abraham Lincoln

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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
History and Historians
Karl Marx

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There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
Philosophers and Philosophy
H. L. Mencken

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Memoirs are the backstairs of history.
Biography
George Meredith

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The men who make history have not time to write it.
History and Historians
Klemens Von Metternich

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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
Humankind
Ludwig Von Mises

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun