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  History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.
 ~history of sayings by Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors

  When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
 ~inspirational sayings about Sex quotes by H.G. Wells, 1935

  War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
 ~history quotes by Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)

  We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.
 ~famous quotes about Generations by From the movie Fight Club, about Generation X

  History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
 ~history sayings by Charles de Gaulle

  Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?
 ~history of sayings by Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

  The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
 ~inspirational sayings about History quotes by Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History

  Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
 ~history quotes by H.G. Wells, The Outline of History

  I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the "history" I was told in second gradeBut considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose
 ~famous quotes about Thanksgiving Day by Ellen Orleans

  The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
 ~history sayings by Eric Hoffer, The True Believer

  [W]hen a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.
 ~history of sayings by Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History

  History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.
 ~inspirational sayings about History quotes by Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

  [H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick.
 ~history quotes by Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History

  The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
 ~famous quotes about History by Michel de Montaigne, translated

  The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
 ~history sayings by Katharine Anthony

   Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
 ~history of sayings by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Table - Talk

   And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
 ~good sayings about Responsibility by Abraham Lincoln

   It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
 ~history quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

   Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
 ~motivational quotes about Prosperity sayings by John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957

   Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
 ~history sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
 ~history of sayings by Edwin Hubbel Chapin

   Originally marriage meant the sale of a woman by one man to another; now most women sell themselves though they have no intention of delivering the goods listed in the bill of sale.
 ~good sayings about Marriage by Robert Graves

   Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
 ~history quotes by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

   No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
 ~motivational quotes about Attitude sayings by Abraham Lincoln

   Creditors have better memories than debtors.
 ~history sayings by Benjamin Franklin

   Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
 ~history of sayings by Al Boliska

   When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
 ~good sayings about Teachers by The Talmud

   Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.
 ~history quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship, Essays, 1841

   Only as high as I reach can I grow Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be
 ~motivational quotes about Dreams sayings by Karen Ravn

   We need an America with the wisdom of experienceBut we must not let America grow old in spirit
 ~history sayings by Hubert H. Humphrey

   Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
 ~history of sayings by Edna Ferber

   If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
 ~good sayings about Night by Ralph Waldo Emerson

   Painting is silent poetry.
 ~history quotes by Plutarch, Moralia: How to Study Poetry

   It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
 ~motivational quotes about Intelligence sayings by Albert Einstein

   Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
 ~history sayings by John Muir

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