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“The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.”
“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”
“But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others...Yet this music, the sound of this ...”
“Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.”
“How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.”
“Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.”
“The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.”
“I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.”
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
“History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”
“Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.”
“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few ha...”
“History An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”
“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesnt make sense. Stories make th...”
“In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.”
“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come;...”
“I always think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shoot...”
“Sometimes - history needs a push.”
“We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our ante...”
“Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.”
