#story

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. ↗

— Will Durant

#history #hoard #inflationary #know #last

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. ↗

— Will Durant

#history #mostly #prejudice #rest

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ↗

— Abba Eban

#behave #exhausted #history #men #nations

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. ↗

— Abba Eban

#first #history #i #i think #morrow

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#favors #history #human #human history #natural

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#course #due #heart #history #long

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. ↗

— James Ellroy

#american #american history #brooding #crime #history

I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes. ↗

— Cary Elwes

#favorite #historical #history #i #i love

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces. ↗

— Cary Elwes

#buff #deliberate #films #history #i

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#everybody #generational #history #internalized #knows