116 Quotes About History-of-mankind
- Author Georges Duby
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Es el hombre vivo lo que hay que buscar bajo el polvo de los archivos y en el silencio de los museos.
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- Author Terry Pratchett
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It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.
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- Author Hendrik Willem van Loon
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The history of man is the record of a hungry creature in search of food. Wherever food was plentiful, thither man has travelled to make his home. - Page 22
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- Author William Hazlitt
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The present is an age of talkers, and not doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past achievements.
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- Author Hendrik Willem van Loon
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History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward
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- Author Sean DeLauder
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History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it preferred to be shocking.
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- Author Simone Weil
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L'histoire est un tissu de bassesses et de cruautés où quelques gouttes de pureté brillent de loin en loin.
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- Author Simon Sebag Montefiore
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon
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