#history books

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. ↗

— Anatole France

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I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

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When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history. ↗

— Dave Foley

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Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. ↗

— George Michael

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We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about. ↗

— Anna Paquin

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It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. ↗

— Gene Simmons

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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books. ↗

— David Strathairn

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It is over with; I am in the history books. ↗

— Michael Moorer

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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

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