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History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

One German makes a philosopher, two a public meeting, three a war.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

History is the devil's scripture.