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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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"We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other." »Hazlitt
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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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"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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"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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"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 ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men." »E.M. Cioran
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"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people." »Benito Mussolini
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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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"No one should be judge in his own case." »Publilius Syrus
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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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"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." »Richard Buckminster Fuller
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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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"The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest." »Conan Doyle
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"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering." »Arthur C. Clarke
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