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As the years progress and we experience more and more, the mini-narratives that make up our lives are distorted, corrupted, so that every one of us is left with a false history, a self-created fiction about the live we have led. pg 163" -- Michelle Richmond
Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false. -- Robert Walpole
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. -- Dean Kamen
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news. -- Adrienne Rich
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. -- Ambrose Bierce
The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history. -- Billy Graham
The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact. -- John Henrik Clarke
If you start studying history closer, you'll find that most all wars are based on false flag operations to get people - to convince the people that they're under attack in some way so that they will support the wars. -- Jesse Ventura
Anyone can see how if a feared tax hike doesn't happen, that's a positive factor. But even if tax hikes happen as feared, vast history tells me it doesn't have to have the big bad impact folks fear. And fear of a false factor is always bullish. -- Kenneth Fisher
With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is. -- Conor Oberst
I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing. -- Jenny Lawson
I went back to Dallas for a little while to finish my short film 'Rusty Forkblade.' It was not the instant success I thought it was going to be. There's a false narrative that if you make a short film right after senior year, you'll be plucked out to make a feature length film, and the rest is history. I didn't do that. -- Evan Daugherty
History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant -- John Barth
The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. -- Miguel de Unamuno
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable. -- Emile M. Cioran
Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true? -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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