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When you think of how history is revealed we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history you have to move forward.

I normally ignore the History Channel.

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues he's extraordinarily wealthy and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

If history is a guide a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

It's in the history books the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

The long-established and noble rule of Law one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

I'm really interested in modern history but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

Yes they broke the law but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that whether it - they have to pay a fine learn to speak English the history you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.

We have our own history our own language our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.