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The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.

The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it.

It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.

I would like to ask Him if He was indeed virgin born, because the answer to that question would define history.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

I try to look at the texts and say: Is there a way that I can find history in the texts and separate it from what may be the mythological elements, and I don't find any rules for that.

To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.

I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.

the anchor man thrown overboard has simply rooted us in history's repeating cycle

I had what can only be described as the worst voice in the history of music.

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

What was even more germane was my study of the history of religion. It was one of the few things in school I was fascinated by.