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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.
To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.
History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.
The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.
Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental.
There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.
They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.
On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!
History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.
Being offended is a natural consequence of leaving the house.
Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.
The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!
History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history.
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.
To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.
Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
We're in a political depression - a great political depression
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
There is neither vice nor virtue, there are only circumstances.
In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.
We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.
History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.
That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.
The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.
Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.