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“No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.”
“You see, I have been at revaluing myself in the last few days. I may have some value to historians because I have destroyed a few things. The builder of your Cathedral is forgotten even now, but I,...”
“A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help.”
“No moment is ever isolatedWith history elsewhere, drilling its stitches.”
“A half-century later, Mark Twain would say that the gold rush drastically changed the American character, ending the tradition of patient apprenticeships, the gradual mastery of self, talent, and m...”
“...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.”
“If somebody tells you History will never forgive you, just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you wont be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!”
“Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.”
“My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I dont know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.”
“we're looking for a planeet on the strength of a song. it's crazy I know, but its the only chance we have to do something useful." ...Evan Wilson said gravely "I think you're as crazy as Heinrich S...”
“History looks queer when you're standing close to it, watching where it is coming from and how it's being made.”
“If England had not used the services of privateers and pirates during its long struggle with Spain, there is some likelihood that people today in North America would be speaking Spanish rather than...”
“Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By history? Here, on the Island, they had learnt how to deal with history, how to sling it careless...”
“To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.”
“History is boring, unless you see it from the right perspective. perspective is important.Corn growing in a field appears orderless, till one turns the corner and sees the rows line up. a pixelized...”
“It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history.”
“History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.”
“Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our problems through what are pompously called "the lessons of history," but at least we should be ab...”
“The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.”
“If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties...”
