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History is the discovering of the principles of human nature. by David Hume

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

David Hume
human-nature principles history
Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of e... by David M. Shoup

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

David M. Shoup
camouflage remember history
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would wa... by David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

David McCullough
done want history

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough
who-we-are history way
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an ind... by David McCullough

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

David McCullough
forget history past

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

David P. Thelen
challenges history past
It would be the most crucial day of the entire war. by David McCullough

It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.

David McCullough
would-be war history
Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country... by David McCullough

Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.

David McCullough
country history people
Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is... by David Shannon

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

David Shannon
simple history past

Compare the scale and magnifcence of Versailles with St James's - the brick-built hovel in which the 18th-century kings of England lived. What was then the most powerful monarchy in the world housed its sovereigns in a converted leper hospital, yet, at the same time, parliament provided the magnificent palaces of Chelsea and Greenwich as hospitals for retired soldiers and sailors.

David Starkey
powerful kings history
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. by Dean Acheson

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

Dean Acheson
empires roles history

We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.

Denis Kearney
vote trying history
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uni... by Dejan Stojanovic

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

Dejan Stojanovic
affair serious history
History is an agreed-upon fiction. by Diane Ackerman

History is an agreed-upon fiction.

Diane Ackerman
history fiction

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

Desmond Tutu
roots history people
That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't. by Dolores Huerta

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

Dolores Huerta
stories history world

The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.

Don DeLillo
stronger cells history
History is the record of encounters between character and circums... by Donald Creighton

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

Donald Creighton
encounters character history
Less is more, in prose as in architecture. by Donald Hall

Less is more, in prose as in architecture.

Donald Hall
philosophy history art

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

Donald Woods Winnicott
fighting wish history
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