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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. |
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- Napoleon
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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. |
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- Cicero
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History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield. |
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- Mario Van Peebles
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. |
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- Wystan Hugh Auden
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History makes us some amends for the shortness of life. |
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- Philip Skelton
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History never looks like history when you are living through it. |
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- John W. Gardner
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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. |
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- George Macaulay Trevelyan
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History repeats itself historians repeat each other. |
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- Philip Guedalla
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History suggests that Capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. |
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- Milton Friedman
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. |
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- Abba Eban
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