Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. – Pieter Geyl, Debates With Historians
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After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixons tapes. – Bob Woodward
History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. – Dexter Perkins
Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing. – Willis Thornton, Fable, Fact and History
One morning, about four oclock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: Im falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with. – June Carter Cash
I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish – thats what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff. – Louis C. K.
