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


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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without pa...
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In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
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Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from mu...
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Imagination governs the world.
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there desert...
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
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Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it!
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
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Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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A true man hates no one.
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In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
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I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet t...
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Din, fakirlerin zenginleri öldürmesine engel olur.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
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For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.
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I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.
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The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
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History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
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MARC NEWSON
I think we agree, the past is over.
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History displays the events of time.
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The '04 version is one of the greatest comeback seasons in Cal State Fullerton history,
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
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S.H. STEINBERG
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We've had these type of events in the past. We're going to have them in the future.
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Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
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Many towns are realizing the future is in the past. When people buy older houses, they have an inter...
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History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
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Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or v...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to dr...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.
LOUIS BONAPARTE
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
A leader is a dealer in hope.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will alw...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE