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"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right."	Eugene V. Debs
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some."	Charles Dickens
"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."	E. L. Doctorow
"History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon-See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil."	Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole
"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."	Frederick Douglass
"Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future."	Diane Elizabeth Duane
"The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here."	Finley Peter Dunne
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."	William James "Will" Durant
"Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing song."	William James "Will" Durant
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."	William James "Will" Durant
"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."	Wayne W(alter) Dyer
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."	Abba Eban
"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."	Barbara Ehrenreich
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."	Albert Einstein
"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."	Dwight David Eisenhower
"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."	George Eliot
"The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women."	Elizabeth II
"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."	Elizabeth II
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Edmund Burke	Edna Ferber	Edward Gibbon
Edward Bedore	Edward Morgan Forster	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
Elbert Hubbard	Elizabeth II	Erich Fromm
Eric Hoffer	Eugene V. Debs	Euripides
E. L. Doctorow	Finley Peter Dunne	Francisco "El Caudillo" Franco
Franklin P. Jones	François Maurice Mitterrand	Frederick Chiluba
Frederick Douglass	Frederick Henry Hedge	Frederic William Maitland
Gabrid Garcia Marquez	Garth Brooks	George
George Bernard Shaw	George Eliot	George Santayana
Georges Clemenceau	George Frost Kennan	George Stanley McGovern
George William Curtis	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Gerald Jampolsky
Gerald R. Ford	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Gustave Flaubert
Hans Albrecht Bethe	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Alfred Kissinger
Henry St. John Bolingbroke	Herbert Butterfield	Herb Brody
Hubert H. Humphrey	H. Jackson Brown	H. R. Haldeman
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
James Joyce	Jan Glidewell	Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Jean Anouilh	Jean Bodin	Jean de La Bruyère
Jean Genet	Jim	John Greenleaf Whittier
John Milton	John B. Gough	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Maynard Keynes	John Van de Kamp	John W(illiam) Gardner
John W. Hanley	Joseph Conrad	Joseph Joubert
Kahlil Gibran	Karl Marx	Ken Lancaster
Leonard L. Levinson	Lewis Mumford	Lillian Hellman
Lord Billingsley	Lyndon Baines Johnson	L. Thomas Holdcroft
Madame Chiang	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Margaret Mead	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
Mark Beltaire	Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mary Bertone	Maxim Gorky	Maya Angelou
May-lin Soong Chiang	Michael Cibenko	Miguel de Cervantes
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin	Milton Friedman	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
M. I. Abramowitz	Nadia Boulanger	Napolean Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev	Nikos Kazantzakis
Noam Chomsky	Norman Cousins	Norman Mailer
Oren Arnold	Oscar Wilde	Oswald Mosley
Peter Handke	Philip Guedalla	Philip Howard
Phyllis Bottome	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Reinhold Niebuhr
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert	Robertson Davies
Robert Anson Heinlein	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole	Robert Lee Frost	Russell Hoban
R. D. Laing	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Butler
Sarah Knowles Bolton	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Sir Arthur Keith
Sir Francis Bacon	Sir John Buchan	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Stephen R. Covey	Terry Hands	Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Jefferson	Timothy Leary	Ty Howard
Ursala Lequin	Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh	Vernon Cooper
Victor Hugo	Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve	Walter Bagehot
Wayne W(alter) Dyer	Will Rogers	Willa Sibert Cather
William James	William Edgar Borah	William Golding
William James "Will" Durant	Woody Allen	Wystan Hugh Auden