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Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it te

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Green sods are all their monuments; and yet it tells
A nobler history than pillared piles,
Or the eternal pyramids.

The disastrous history of our species indicates t

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The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

Very few things

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Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Without question, the greatest invention in the h

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Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a v

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K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

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History is philosophy teaching by examples.

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned u

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A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

The history of the world is the record of a man i

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The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

Those who expect moments of change to be comforta

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Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it

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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Correct English is the slang of prigs who write h

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Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

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We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

For the first time in history, sex is more danger

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For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

For the first time in history, sex is more danger

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For the first time in history, sex is more dangerous than the cigarette afterward.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but th

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The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din
Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron p

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Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen,
Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on t

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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Hardly a name in profane history is more august t

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Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument!

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