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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. Saul Williams
The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes on in you without your having to do anything about it). . . John Ashbery
Helle Thorning-Schmidt quote: "We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today..."
We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark. Helle Thorning-Schmidt
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon? Dan Brown
Emilie Autumn quote: "History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is..."
History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever. Emilie Autumn
Napoleon Bonaparte quote: "History is written by the winners."
History is written by the winners. Napoleon Bonaparte
History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places. Kate Mosse
George Santayana quote: "History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be..."
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. George Santayana
Morris West quote: "History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a..."
History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future Morris West
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand—and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? Washington Irving
Jeffrey Sachs quote: "History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for..."
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything. Jeffrey Sachs
Voltaire quote: "History should be written as philosophy."
History should be written as philosophy. Voltaire
Winston Churchill quote: "History is written by the victors."
History is written by the victors. Winston Churchill
Percy Bysshe Shelley quote: "History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of..."
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. Percy Bysshe Shelley
primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice - as in the dark knights of the ovens which pocked old earth history - and that current generations had to deny any command for sacrifice. Sol had written that whatever God now took in human consciousness - whether as a mere manifestation of the subconscious in all its revanchist needs or as a more conscious attempt at philosophical and ethical evolution... Dan Simmons

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