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“If the stones that we walked on could talk, they would surely tell our story." - Magnetic Reverie”
“This melodrama differed from others in that it was not written, it was to be played impromptu, and only once; after that it would be precedent, and would determine the destinies of mankind perhaps ...”
“Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.”
“[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original circumstances of its composition.”
“You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. Its finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples.”
“The crisis of history in France, is a crisis of social bond, a crisis of citizenship. A citizen is the heir of a past more or less mythified, but he makes his own, whatever his personal genealogy. ...”
“South African history did not start in 1652.”
“I will lay it out in black and white, and my tale will contain more truth than the great dead histories on my father's bookshelves. For they say what happened, but not what it was like. They say wh...”
“Thank you, sir. But, uh, can you tell me where the First New York Regiment is?”
“Interesting, I thought, how quickly history becomes stories rather than reality; one step already from the truth.”
“A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself. Another factor is the urge to attack someone else.”
“These last months, I have learned that the acknowledged history that belongs to the daylight, that is not the only history. Turn over the stone and you will find another history, wriggling to escape.”
“Anna Chapman was born Anna Vasilyevna Kushchyenko, in Volgograd, formally Stalingrad, Russia, an important Russian industrial city. During the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II, the city became ...”
“The mistakes of history bring relentless reprisals.”
“More history than ever is today being revised or invented by people who do not want the real past, but only a past that suits their purpose. Today is the great age of historical mythology. The defe...”
“All history is modern history.”
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of...”
“For the greatest part the American bombardiers, using the Norden bombsight with its autopilot, hit their target. However on nights with poor visibility anything was possible.As the bombs fell, peop...”
“Many of the slaves believe such stories, and think it is not worth while to exchange slavery for such a hard kind of freedom. It is difficult to persuade such that freedom could make them useful me...”
“History is written by victors, said Duko. But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned.”
