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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.
If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.
We are no longer dealing with historical events, but with places of collapse.
If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.
I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.
As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.
The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.
There's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner.
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.
The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.
Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.
Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.
Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.
Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
Collins masterfully blends fact and fiction...transcends the historical thriller.
If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.
In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.
I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.
History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.
I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
There is no greater advocate of perestroika than the president of the United States.
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.
A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.
I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler.
There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities.
My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance.
The historical evidence shows that shareholders usually greatly benefit from mergers.
Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves.
One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.
Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.
I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
For people, 'here' signifies not merely a physical space, but also an historical space.
Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.