"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."

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"The history of man is a must read poetry."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft."

Alan Shepard, American Astronaut

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"A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'"

William F. Buckley, Jr., American Journalist

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"The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt."

Mary Harris Jones, American Activist

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"Tony Kaye is great with that kind of stuff. Up until American History X, he had only done commercials."

Ethan Suplee, American Actor

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"I loved psychology and I loved history."

Joely Fisher, American Actress

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"I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling."

Frances Burney, British Novelist

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"At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history."

F. L. Lucas, English Critic

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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."

M. H. Abrams, American Critic

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"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place."

Ignazio Silone, Italian Author

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"To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making."

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"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."

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"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."

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"An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts."

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"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."

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"When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."

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"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."

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"A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward."

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"No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing."

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"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."

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