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It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

For the last 4 years, our Federal Government has produced the four biggest deficits in history, and the estimated 2006 deficit of $423 billion is projected to be the largest of all.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

Happy is the nation without a history.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history.

Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.