“Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.”
— Paul Wolfowitz
Author: Paul Wolfowitz
Category: history
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“Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.”
— Stephen Ambrose
Author: Stephen Ambrose
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“Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.”
— Kirstie Alley
Author: Kirstie Alley
Category: history
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“Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.”
— Dante Alighieri
Author: Dante Alighieri
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“Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.”
— Augustine Birrell
Author: Augustine Birrell
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“I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.”
— Robert Caro
Author: Robert Caro
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“History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.”
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
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“History is a vast early warning system.”
— Norman Cousins
Author: Norman Cousins
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“In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.”
— Salman Rushdie
Author: Salman Rushdie
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“Then I despair… I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.”
— Andre Malraux
Author: Andre Malraux
Category: history
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“Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.”
— Honore de Balzac
Author: Honore de Balzac
Category: history
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