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“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach hi...”
“The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.”
“My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any...”
“AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?”
“I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is...”
“What's happening now is what happened before, and often what's going to happen again sometime or other”
“A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.”
“Just a little off the top!"- A. Boleyn”
“It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records ...”
“I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.”
“Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.”
“Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.”
“Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history.”
“What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?”
“God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.”
“We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present.”
“If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.”
“What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't...”
“I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.”
“...the dreamlike, bombastic wish to stand once again at that point in my life and be able to take a completely different direction than the one that has made me who I am now... To sit once more on ...”
