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  • Lord Chesterfield History is but a confused heap of facts.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Bill Nye History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Carl Sagan History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly belong to all of us. We must not let it happen again.
    Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 36 min 20 sec
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Jeanette Winterson History is not a suicide note, it is a record of our survival.
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Malcolm X History is not hatred.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Voltaire History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Mark Twain History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Joseph Conrad History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bennie Thompson History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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  • Jesse Jackson Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
    Jesse Jackson
    American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader (1941 - )
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  • Oswald Chambers Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Orson Welles Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Christian Morgenstern Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
    Christian Morgenstern
    German poet (1871 - 1914)
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  • Bethany McLean Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.
    Bethany McLean
    American journalist (1970 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover Honest differences of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy making among free men.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • George Robert Gissing Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Britney Spears Honestly, I still don't use my computer. My kids use the computer more than I do! I understand that a lot of people are into it, and I have days where I write and stuff, but it's really not for me. It's not my thing.
    Britney Spears
    American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress (1981 - )
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