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History
- Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
- -- Ayn Rand
- You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
- -- Will Rogers
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- -- George Santayana
- Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
- -- George Bernard Shaw
- I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.
I failed history.
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Sting
- Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
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Unknown history student
- The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west.
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Unknown history student
- For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
- -- Virginia Woolf
- Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
- -- Virginia Woolf
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