"History will always repeat itself, because it makes for good reading. It doesn't have to be truthful or factual, just entertaining with the odd fact thrown in for good measure."

History, Repetition, Truth, Entertainment

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"History will always repeat itself, because it makes for good reading. It doesn't have to be truthful or factual, just entertaining with the odd fact thrown in for good measure."

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

History, Change, Idea, Ownership, Past

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

History, Religion, Morality, Mankind

"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

History, Death, Decay, Memory

"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

History, Symbolism, Patriotism, Emotion

"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

History, Country, City, America

"The past is not a package one can lay away."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

History, Past, Memory, Time

"The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

History, Memory, Study, Truth

"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

History, Power, Justice, Strength

"An important part of what the state does is preserving its history."

James R. Thompson, American Politician

History, State

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

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

History, Men

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"I don't have a garden full of flowers.I have a garden full of love."

Love

"Your beauty isn't in your laughter. It's in your soul."

Spiritual

"When I look inside myself, I find I am to blame,For everything that I've done wrong,And said others were to blame."

Responsibility

"Huang Sung turned to the master and asked, "Master, will it come to pass?"The master looked up into the sky and then turned to Huang Sung, "When the sky is red from our tears and the earth is blackened by the ashes of our forefathers and then, when we look inwards to where our hearts once were, then we shall know that it has come to pass, but not in the time allotted to man."From a book that I am writing, called, "The Teachings of Huang Sung."

Time

"We are each given a life to show what we can achieve during our time here on Earth.And we are each given a heart to show how we can be compassionate and kind during our time here on Earth.We shouldn't waste either."

Life

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

"The past is not a package one can lay away."

"The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present."

"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong."

"An important part of what the state does is preserving its history."

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

Explore more quotes by Anthony T. Hincks

"I don't have a garden full of flowers.I have a garden full of love."

"Your beauty isn't in your laughter. It's in your soul."

"When I look inside myself, I find I am to blame,For everything that I've done wrong,And said others were to blame."

"A clone may be a good copy, but you are the real thing!"

"When we live in the past, there is no future."

"Sometimes I think that we're the aliens."

"In the end it was worth it."

"Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?"

"We are each given a life to show what we can achieve during our time here on Earth.And we are each given a heart to show how we can be compassionate and kind during our time here on Earth.We shouldn't waste either."