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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favours not only the clever but the murderous.
View quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich

The longest suicide note in history (on Labour's New Hope for Britain in 1983)
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History is a fascinating subject and you must always remember that you are dealing with edited accounts of what really happened.
View quotes by Franklin Garrett

We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
View quotes by Georg W Hegel

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
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History teaches us that the past is full of luck and chance and circumstance, without any one of which, life could have been radically different.
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Flintoff’s men will need to rely much more on simply history repeating itself if they are to win the Ashes this time round [2006]
View quotes by Jonathan Agnew

Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history.
View quotes by Fernand Braudel

I like it [Australia] a lot, I think it's a terrific country; they really know how to live. The natural history of the place is endlessly fascinating.
View quotes by Bill Bryson

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.
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The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.
View quotes by Larry Summers

I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander.
View quotes by Douglas Macarthur

As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation.
View quotes by Joe Barton

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.
View quotes by Peter Gay

The hardships and privations of pioneer life which did so much to develop sterling manhood, are now but a legend in history.
View quotes by Daniel Carter Beard

I would not like to do it. They should find someone the audience has no history with. [on reports he might just possibly be asked to play James Bond]
View quotes by Colin Farrell

We don't have the worst red-card record in the history of football, we haven't thrown pizzas in the dressing room.
View quotes by Jose Mourinho

A lot of people wrote us off but I'm very proud of this team which has made history [on staying in the Premiership 2004-5 season]
View quotes by Kevin Campbell

Man passes away; his names perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
View quotes by Washington Irving

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