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" My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature. " - Emily Giffin

" The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair. " - George Will

" You cannot survive if you do not know the past. " - Oriana Fallaci

" The kickoff is a big part of the history of the NFL and the history of football and for us to be sitting here talking about maybe doing away with the kickoff; it’s very disappointing. " - Matthew Slater

" I was given a thick paperback copy of the ‘Guinness Book of Records’ when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously, cover to cover, paying special lip-smacking attention to all the incredibly gruesome chapters about the violence of human history. " - Russell Smith

" I’m a big stupid history nerd. " - Emilie Autumn

" As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged – indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe’s long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East. " - Neil MacGregor

" We’re talking about, essentially, the Roman historians, who wrote Cleopatra into the story mostly so that they could talk about the rise of Rome. And that is one of the problems, of course, in recounting her life. She’s only ever apparent to us when there is a Roman in the room, or when her story intersects with the rise of Rome. " - Stacy Schiff

" We have a long, proud history of making things here in Connecticut. We’re home to large companies like Electric Boat, Pratt & Whitney, and Sikorsky, as well as their thousands of suppliers. " - Chris Murphy

" History is a set of lies agreed upon. " - Napoleon Bonaparte