Quotes on history

Delight smooth sounding platitudes, refusal face unpleasant facts … — Winston S. Churchill, Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm Winston S. Churchill
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Delight smooth sounding platitudes, refusal face unpleasant facts … — Winston S. Churchill, Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm Winston S. Churchill
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heard ballads great battles, poems beauty a charge grace a leader. kno — Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory
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history interactions among disparate peoples shaped modern world conqu — Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, Steel: Fates Human Societies

Germs Guns Jared Diamond Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Among many misdeeds British rule India, history look upon Act deprived — Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi
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Among many misdeeds British rule India, history look upon Act deprived — Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi
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Among many misdeeds British rule India, history look upon Act deprived — Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi
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Wars make history seem deceptively simple. provide clear turning point — Kate Morton, House Riverton

Kate Morton The House at Riverton
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known going this, a shoemaker. — Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein
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Pitiful pitied no one, come ignominy detestable old age, ruler two kin — Eleanor Aquitaine

Eleanor of Aquitaine
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