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Friday, April 25, 2008

Comical History Quotes

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow

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The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs. Khrushchev.
Nikita Khrushchev

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I felt like a pickle stepping into history.—During the unveiling of his official portrait in the East Room of the White House (June 14, 2004)
Bill Clinton

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I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.
George Burns

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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.
Will Durant

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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.
Paul Elridge

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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Konrad Adenauer

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In times like these, it's helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey

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Journalism is merely history's first draft.
Geoffrey Ward

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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France

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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of the period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerholm

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They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
Spiro Agnew
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We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
-Gerda Lerner

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy