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“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
“I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.”
“We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”
“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered ...”
“We are all fools in love”
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.”
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
“History is written by the victors.”
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
“Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)”
“It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first son...”
“History is written by the winners.”
“By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.”
“History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no w...”
“Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.”
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
“There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.”
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new ver...”
“History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.”
