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"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." William Edgar Borah 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward." Garth Brooks 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present-- which seldom happens to us." Jean de La Bruyère 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves." Sir John Buchan 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"God cannot alter the past, but historians can." Samuel Butler 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God." Albert Camus 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die." Thomas Carlyle 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make." Gilbert Keith Chesterton 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." Arthur C(harles) Clarke 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances." Donald Creighton 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealised past." Robertson Davies 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right." Eugene V. Debs 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song." William James "Will" Durant 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." Abba Eban 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime." Elizabeth II 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back." Ralph Waldo Emerson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We are all citizens of history." Clifton Paul Fadiman 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times." Gustave Flaubert 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." Bertie Forbes 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life." Anatole France 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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