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History Quotes

September 19, 2013/in Clifton Fadiman, History, Wine /by admin

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history -Clifton Fadiman

August 10, 2012/in Civilization, Future, History, Marcus Aurelius, Past /by

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too. -Marcus Aurelius

July 18, 2012/in Ayn Rand, Darkness, Government, History, Humans /by

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. -Ayn Rand

July 10, 2012/in Dan Brown, History, Nature, Opinion /by

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account -Dan Brown

July 1, 2012/in History, Knowledge, Michael Crichton /by

If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. -Michael Crichton

June 12, 2012/in Gustave Flaubert, History, Past /by

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs. -Gustave Flaubert