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• Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.

  David Letterman

  Funny, War, Humorous

  "Only Joking: What's So Funny about Making People Laugh?". Book by Jimmy Carr and Lucy Greeves, 2006.

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• Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

  Joanne Harris

  Book, Writing, Leaving

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• In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Book, Rights, Black

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• 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 grandfathers or my grandmothers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

  Gene Simmons

  Mother, Book, Yesterday

  "Parker Spitzer" with Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2010.

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• All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

  Moliere

  Dance, Book, Skills

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• Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.

  George Michael

  Book, Way, My Way

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• I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there.

  Zach Braff

  Book

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• If you think you have it tough, read history books.

  Bill Maher

  Coffee, Book, Thinking

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• I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the French Left in 1978. Conversely, my first non-academic publication, a review in the 'TLS', did not come until the late 1980s, and it was not until 1993 that I published my first piece in the 'New York Review.'

  Tony Judt

  New York, Book, Pieces

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• We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

  Dick Gregory

  Book, Thinking, Roots

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Book, School, Dust

  1941 In This Our Life, pt.3, ch.9.

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• History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

  Anatole France

  Lying, Book, History

  "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard". Book by Anatole France, 1881.

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• There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

  Garth Brooks

  Book, Curves, Differences

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• I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did - or did not do - to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

  Bono

  War, Believe, Book

  Bono's remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 2006.

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• White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.

  Huey Newton

  Book, School, Uprising

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

  Katy Perry

  Hippie, Book, Kids

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• The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

  Helen Thomas

  Book, White, People

  "Hearst" Newspaper Column, November 28, 2001.

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• When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Book, People

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• And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards and typeset, I am astonished. Perhaps the event has an unassailable truth. God saw it. God knows. But I am not God. And so when someone tells me what they heard or saw, I believe them, and I believe their friend who also saw, but not in the same way, and I can put these accounts together and I will not have a seamless wonder but a sandwich laced with mustard of my own.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Book, Taken

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.95, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them.

  LouAnne Johnson

  Sex, Real, Lying

  Louanne Johnson (2009). “Muchacho: A Novel”, p.79, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

  Caitlin Moran

  Book, Ifs

  Interview with Julia Baird, www.abc.net.au. January 1, 2012.

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• I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

  Jesse Ventura

  Book, Kids, Opinion

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• My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Book, Heart, Tragedy

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• I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.

  Barbara Kruger

  Book, Artist, Thinking

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• The Holocaust happened in Europe, and that's important to how it is viewed. Had Europeans done such a thing in the far corners of the earth, rather than on their own doorstep, it might not be mentioned in the history books.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Book, Europe, Holocaust

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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