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“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”
Winston Churchill
“You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.”
Maya Angelou
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”
“Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Women with "pasts" interest men because men hope that history will repeat itself.”
Mae West
“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
Oscar Wilde
“History is written by the victors.”
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
Virginia Woolf
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”
C.S. Lewis
