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History is written by the victors.

Winston Churchill

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Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

Sarah Bernhardt

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History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

B. R. Ambedkar

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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

George Orwell

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Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Pope John Paul II

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I've been accepted at Cambridge University. I want to study Chinese history and archaeology. I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

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I never feel lonely if I've got a book — they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.

Emilia Fox

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The great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, putting forward the development of sports as a matter that has an important bearing on the prosperity of the country and nation, indicated the road ahead of the Juche-based sports and wrote a new chapter in the history of building a sports power by dint of outstanding ideas and leadership.

Kim Jong-un

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Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Leigh Hunt

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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

Washington Irving

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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

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It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

Sonia Sotomayor

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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Walter Scott

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I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.

Kanye West

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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans — the original Americans.

Beau Bridges

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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

Newt Gingrich

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I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.

Matt Cameron

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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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