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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

History is an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

History is more or less bunk.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

We would like to live as we once lived but history will not permit it.

Study history study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Remember our proud history of social justice universal health care public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.

When I turned 30 due to my father's heart history and my family genetics I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history viral diseases have had their way with us and for just as long we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth more industry more happiness more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me particularly given my medical history.

Little islands of human happiness peace and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

All the ills of mankind all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books all the political blunders all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex the ugly ones included.

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