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“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.”
Dave Barry
“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”
Winston Churchill
“Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.”
Will Rogers
“If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree”
Michael Crichton
“Our history sings of centuries Such varying songs it sings! It starts with winds, slow moving sails, It ends with skies and wings”
Catherine Cate Coblentz
“History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government. . . . When it reaches 25%, there comes an increase in lawlessness.”
Ronald Reagan
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible”
Mark Twain
“Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.”
Alfred Whitney Griswold
“Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.”
C.S. Lewis
