#history

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. ↗

— Richard Rorty

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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ↗

— Confucius

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The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth. ↗

— Robert Baldwin Ross

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. ↗

— Kanye West

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The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history. ↗

— Gilbert White

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World War II was the last government program that really worked. ↗

— George Will

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The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. ↗

— Horatio Alger

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