116 Quotes About History-of-mankind
- Author Barbara W. Tuchman
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Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway.
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- Author Alexander McCall Smith
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Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.
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- Author E.A. Bucchianeri
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... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
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- Author Sijin Bt
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History should not be just a light to the past but a signal light to the future.
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- Author Nkahloleng Eric Mohlala
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It is always important to guard with jealous attention the origin of your existence .Don't be shy to Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel with distractive intentions.Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. And that is why u must always be ready for a war .
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- Author Lord Byron
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There is a moral of all human tales:'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,First Freedom, and then Glory; when that fails, Wealth, Vice, Corruption, barbarism at last.And History, with all her volumes vast,Hath but one page.
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- Author Nanette L. Avery
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History left behind is like a bookmark in a classic.
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- Author Booth Tarkington
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Every new age has at its disposal everything that was fine in all past ages, and its greatness depends on how well it recognizes and preserves and brings to the aid of its own enlightenment whatever worthy and true things the dead have left on earth behind them.
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- Author Carl Zimmer
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The stubborn inequalities in the Unites States are not the result of some people living in a physical environment. Their environment is built by social forces, and those forces last for centuries because they are regenerated across the generations.
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