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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

- Anonymous

History, a distillation of rumor

- Thomas Carlyle

The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces, the chief points in the process of history.

- Edward Bernstein

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.

- Benjamin Disraeli

There is properly no history, only biography.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

- Edward Gibbon

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

- Napoleon

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

- Friedrich von Schlegel

All history is a lie!

- Sir Robert Walpole

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

- H. G. Wells