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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
Carlos Santana on history

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf on history

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
Friedrich August von Hayek on history

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Jacques Yves Cousteau on history

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Woodrow Wilson on history

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
Quentin Tarantino on history

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Richard M. Nixon on history

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams on history

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow on history

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Aleister Crowley on history

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.
Paul Ryan on history

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.
George W. Bush on history

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt on history

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Eric Hoffer on history

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Robert Mugabe on history

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
Elie Wiesel on history

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

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
Franklin P. Adams on history

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.
Anita Baker on history

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Robert Orben on history