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History is history.

I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. It's something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History should be written as philosophy.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.