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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
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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.
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History has demonstrated time and again the inherent resilience and recuperative powers of the American economy.
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
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History has shown us, that you can't allow the mass extermination of people, and just sit by and watch it happen.
Time Magazine -
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
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History is a better guide than good intentions.
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History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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History is a pageant and not a philosophy.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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History is but a confused heap of facts.
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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.
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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 -
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
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