History: a collection of epitaphs. – Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. – Lyndon B. Johnson
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. – Naguib Mahfouz
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of mans general destiny. – Lascelles Abercrombie
These things have a life of there own and never existed when I was growing up certainly worrying when one would get made. Its kind of amazing how that one movie kept living through all these years. – Stockard Channing
