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"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different." »Aldous Huxley
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"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly." »Thomas Huxley
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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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"I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth." »Goldie Hawn
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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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"Don´t loose the lesson, but don´t miss it either." »Herki Siider
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"You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try." »Homer Simpson
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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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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." »Winston Churchill
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"When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears." »Gene Oliver
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"Life is a long lesson in humility." »James M. Barrie
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"He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear." »Gaius Julius Caesar
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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." »Vernon Sanders Law
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"All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism." »North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon
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"A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well." »Dan Rather
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"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward." »Unknown
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"The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose." »John McEnroe
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