User:Goose friend

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Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away ― Jesus Christ ]]

Pages created at Wikiquote English:
 * Ada Lovelace
 * Albert Lutuli
 * Archibald Hill
 * Carl Linnaeus
 * Daniel Drake
 * Edward Jenner
 * Elisha Gray
 * Ernest J. Gaines
 * Francis J. Grimké
 * Fritz von Uhde
 * Gregor Mendel
 * Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher
 * Hugo De Vries
 * Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
 * James David Forbes
 * James Finlay Weir Johnston
 * James Irwin
 * John Dalton
 * Julius von Mayer
 * Pierre-Paul Grassé
 * Ralph Abernathy
 * Samuel Vince
 * Selman Waksman
 * Thomas Romney Robinson
 * Vincent Ostrom
 * William Bateson
 * William Elford Leach
 * William Henry Perkin

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Pages edited at English Wikiquote:
 * Adolphe Quetelet
 * Black people
 * Charles Babbage
 * Charles Lamb
 * Charlotte Brontë
 * David Brewster
 * Frank Borman
 * Frederick Douglass
 * George Washington Carver
 * John Herschel
 * John Glenn
 * John Newton
 * Louis Pasteur
 * Maria Mitchell
 * Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * Max Planck ‎
 * Nicholas Murray Butler
 * Repentance
 * Samuel Rutherford
 * Sojourner Truth
 * William Lloyd Garrison
 * William Wilberforce
 * Thomas Young (scientist)

Quote about lifetime:
 * "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present" (Anonymous)
 * In Spanish: "El ayer es historia, el mañana es un misterio, pero el hoy es un regalo de Dios, es por eso que lo llamamos presente.
 * In French: "« Hier est de l'histoire, demain est un mystère et aujourd'hui est un cadeau. C' est pourquoi nous l'appelons « le présent»"
 * In German: "Das Gestern ist Geschichte. Das Morgen ist Geheimnis. Das Heute ist Geschenk und die einzige Zeit, die mir wirklich gehört."
 * In Russian: Вчера — это история,. завтра - это тайна, а сегодня — подарок судьбы.
 * In Chinese: 昨天是历史,明天是谜团,今天是上帝的礼物,这就是为什么我们叫它现在.

Quotes against biased lying historians (and about how many people manipulate, hide, or misinterprets history)
Behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie. ― God, in Jeremiah 8:8 (The Bible)
 * "How can you say, 'We are wise, And the law of the LORD is with us'?
 * "Historians, it is said, fall into one of three categories: Those who lie. Those who are mistaken. Those who do not know." ― Anonymous
 * "A historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.” ― Howard Zinn,
 * “The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.” ― Colum McCann
 * "The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation." ― John Hope Franklin
 * “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” ― Napoleon
 * “History is written by the winners.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
 * “History is written by the victors.” ― Winston Churchill
 * "History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth." ― Paul Murray,
 * “Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.” ― H.L. Mencken
 * "History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions." ― Voltaire
 * "The historian amputates reality." ― Gaetano Salvemini
 * “Half of writing history is hiding the truth” ― Joss Whedon
 * "History is always a one-sided account.” ― Dan Brown
 * "No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error." ― W. C. Williams
 * "No historian should be trusted implicitly." ― G. Kitson Clark
 * "I often think it odd that it [history] should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention." ― Catherine Morland
 * “Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” ― George Macaulay Trevelyan
 * "History demonstrates that when people don't want to believe something, they have enormous skills of ignoring it altogether.” ― Jim Butcher
 * “History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.” ― Esther M. Friesner
 * "People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them." ― James Baldwin
 * "Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence." ― Goethe
 * “If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.” ― Eugen Weber
 * "HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools." — Ambrose Bierce
 * "[History is] not factual at all, but a series of accepted judgments." ― Geoffrey Barraclough
 * “One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” ― Golda Meir
 * “Do you really believe... that everything historians tell us... is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.” ― Moderata Fonte
 * "The historians repeat one another." ― Max Beerbohm
 * "Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and, What is imagination...? but the projection of the author's personality?." ― Pieter Geyl
 * "Everyone falsifies history even if it is only his own personal history. Sometimes the falsification is deliberate, sometimes unconscious." ― Joseph Freeman
 * "Historians are to be read with moderation and kindness, and it is to be remembered that they can not be in all circumstances." ― Cotton Mather
 * "Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar." ― Jefferson Davis
 * "If one has an exaggerated view of the past, then one is obviously going to have a diminished view of the present." ― Joseph Nye
 * "History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in." ― O. W. Holmes, Jr.
 * "History is the distillation of rumour." ― Thomas Carlyle
 * “All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another.” ― Selma Dabbagh
 * "History is the invention of historians." ― (Attributed to Napoleon)
 * "History has a way of censoring contemporary values." ― Anonymous
 * "The past in the hands of historians is not what it was." ― Lynn White, Jr.
 * "History is not history unless it is the truth." ―Abraham Lincoln
 * "We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer." ― Reinhold Niebuhr
 * "History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to Him as the law of life." ― Reinhold Niebuhr

Favorite quotes:
 * "Jesus is eternally right. History is replete with the bleached bones of nations that refused to listen to him." ―Martin Luther King Jr.
 * "No one can be saved in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved in virtue of what God can do." ~ Karl Barth
 * "Five years ago faith came to me; I believed in the doctrine of Jesus, and all my life suddenly changed. I ceased to desire that which previously I desired, and, on the other hand, I took to desiring what I had never desired before. That which formerly used to appear good in my eyes appeared evil, that which used to appear evil appeared good." ~ Leo Tolstoi
 * "I will no longer worry or fret about issues that do not worry my Savior". ~ David Wilkerson
 * Quotes Against Atheism