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"history is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. history is a wind blowing where it listeth. history is no sure thing to bet on. history is a box of tricks with a lost key. history is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. history says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it." »Carl Sandburg
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"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world." »Sir Karl Popper
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"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it." »Nadia Boulanger
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"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning." »George Frost Kennan
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"history is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today." »Henry Ford
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"For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of heroes." »Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
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"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"history is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth." »E. L. Doctorow
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"Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out." »G. M. Trevelyan
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"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it." »Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"history, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. history only exists, in the final analysis, for God." »Albert Camus
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"When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis." »Harold Walker
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"Swindon What will history say Burgoyne history, sir, will tell lies as usual." »George Bernard Shaw
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"People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people." »Benito Mussolini
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"The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men." »E.M. Cioran
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"history repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy." »George Macaulay Trevelyan
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"history does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history." »Kahlil Gibran
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"If you go down in history, don't take it too seriously because time will come and there will even be no more history, just nothingness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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""To be a prized scientist you have to be good at science, to be a mathematician, you have to be good at math, to be a Pulitzer prize winner, you'd have to my excellent at writing, but to be a famous person in history, learning history will get you nowhere."
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"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." »Dan Quayle
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"If you are a member of a religion which has violence, killings and invading other countries in its history, it is a great shame! Leave it! If a religion is peaceful and innocent, you can never find violence in its history! No good faith carries sword!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach." »Aldous Huxley
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"The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors." »Voltaire
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"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"history never looks like history when you are living through it." »John W. Gardner
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"What's important for me when I teach is to communicate 'to cook up' the visions, smells, tastes and sounds of the time with my young audience. Hopefully, I am imparting 'feeding them' what's important about that period of history. I want my students to taste a respect for the information 'the food' and to know about the cooks, the restaurants, and how the ingredients of time comes together to form a real banquet of history." »Paul. F. Meekin
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"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them." »Thomas Sowell
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"Human history’s the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions are man-made! And this childish discovery will enable the pious to make an intellectual jump in upwards direction. The devout will turn into a progressive man and the history will flow faster in the progressive direction." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." »George Bernard Shaw
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