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“I remember what Old Joe Hun said when arguing with Adrian: that mental states can be inferred from actions. Thats in historyHenry VIII and all that. Whereas in the private life, I think the convers...”
“I've heard it said before that those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it, and I just don't know what I think about that. I figure I don't have too much use for it. The past will ju...”
“History is like a constantly changing tree.”
“No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.”
“History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.”
“History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.”
“Since the early beginning of history, India has been the Klondyke of the world”
“If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.”
“The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.”
“Of that time, there is still much we do not know.”
“Nostalgia is the intimate refuge of every man and every woman in a world seemingly gone mad.”
“Mrs. Friedman lived in a happy snow globe of AP History.”
“Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception.”
“You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.”
“Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young...”
“...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors, and every farmer claims he is a king.”
“When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or an individual, we are marred either by our connections to the specific crime...”
“If a memory wasn't a thing but a memory of a memory of a memory, mirrors set in parallel, then what the brain told you now about what it claimed had happened then would be coloured by what had happ...”
“Under every roof, a story, just as behind every brow, a history”
“These, he said gravely, are unpleasant facts; I know it. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.”
