Quote by Anatole France
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole F

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. – Anatole France

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Sometimes – history needs a push. – Vladimir Lenin

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If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together. – Theodore White

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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. – Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives. – Daisaku Ikeda

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