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• I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.

  Dave Barry

  Horse, Book, School

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• I suppose, as a politician, I should be content, for the Canada Pension Plan certainly put my name in Canada's history books, and in italics.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Book, Pension Plans, Names

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

  Marc Almond

  Book, People, World

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• I'm an expert at killing time on planes now. I do a lot of reading. My secret sort of nerdy side is I'm quite into history so I read a lot of history books. Now I write for a few things and I've had a few history things published, which is cool. I indulge my nerdy side and it's kind of as far away as you can get from the acting world so that's nice as well.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Nice, Book, Reading

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

  James McBride

  Book, College, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Revolutions existed in history, books were written about them, and lectures given: they were complicated phenomena, scientific, remote. While here, the riot of a week ago had turned out to be a real revolution and the shadow of death actually threatened all of us who were of the ruling cast.

  Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

  Real, Book, Shadow Of Death

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• You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

  Alan Shepard

  Believe, Book, Pages

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• I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if any of them come to mind. Besides, admitting the truth wouldn't sound too good. The truth, Russell, is that now the moment's here, I'm scared shitless. Somehow I don't think even Public Information could turn that into good copy.

  David Weber

  Book, Thinking, Mind

  "The Short Victorious War". Book by David Weber, 1994.

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• I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.

  Alan Shepard

  Book, America, Pages

  "Ex-Astronaut Recalls Thrill of 1st U.S. Space Flight" by Marcia Dunn, The Deseret News, p. A, May 01, 1991.

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• I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

  Richard Rorty

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

  Peter M. Brant

  Art, Book, Mean

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• I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

  Mark E. Smith

  Book, Strange, Sometimes

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• If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

  Christine Keeler

  Book, Would Be, Stories

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• But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

  J. D. Salinger

  War, Book, Hero

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• There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Mistake, Stupid, Book

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

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• Thanks to history books, I have realised that people over the years have been dying of war, and that enabled me to realise that there is nothing stupid like war.

  Kamal Haasan

  Peace, War, Stupid

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• A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

  Katherine Paterson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Book, History, Committees

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• As the great philosopher George Santayana would have said, 'those who cannot remember the past . . . should simply read Jan Van Meter's Tippecanoe and Tyler Too.' Van Meter's greatest hits collection of slogans is the catchiest ever retelling of American history. It's like the greatest minds of Madison Avenue sat down to write a history book. They don't make sound bites like they used to!

  Mo Rocca

  Book, Writing, Past

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• One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.

  C. S. Lewis

  Book, Errors, Sea

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Image and Imagination”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• When kids don't learn about their own heritage in school, they just don't care about school... But you won't see it in the history books unless we get the power to write our own history and tell our story ourselves.

  Miles Davis

  Book, Writing, School

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• When real substantive change happens it's the people who watch your show, they're the ones that make it happen. It's people whose names are not highlighted in history books. They're the ones that stand up in their place and time to make change.

  Tom Morello

  Real, Book, Names

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

  Phillip Noyce

  Book, Loser, Winner

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• When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

  Anatole France

  Lying, Book, History

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