Inaccurate Records Quotes



Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich

False history gets written every day.
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James E. Ferguson
James E. Ferguson

Any crooked bookkeeper's books are balanced.
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Furgeson was running, with his wife as proxy, against the incumbent Texas governor who proudly announced that the state auditor had reported the state's books and budget were in balance.

Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
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Robert A. Johnson
Robert A. Johnson

History seems to be so clumsy.
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Christine Keeler
Christine Keeler

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.
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Stephen Leacock
Stephen Leacock

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.
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George Santayana
George Santayana

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
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Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins

History is an accumulation of error.
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Calista Flockhart
Calista Flockhart

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong!
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.
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