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World history is tragic.

I can not change history, I do not want to change history. I can only change the future. I am working on that.

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization.

Those nations have a very great responsibility at this juncture of the world affairs, for by throwing their joint weight into the scales of history on the right side, they may tip the balance decisively in favour of peace.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

I am so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We are not a pacific people.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

If you listen to Giuliani, it is like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I am not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It is like, he did it. He is the only one. That is why he is a little crazy.

The real history of consciousness starts with one first lie.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.