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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.

Buenaventura Durruti

World history is tragic.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Lawrence Durrell

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

As an actor, you have to have your history.

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

William O. Douglas

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.