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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. History and Historians.
– Edward Gibbon

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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
– Napoleon Bonaparte

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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
– Winston Churchill

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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
– Rudyard Kipling

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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
– Karl Marx

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Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
– David Ben Gurion

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On human stupidity: It is one of the most powerful forces that shape history.
– Yuval Noah Harari

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Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.
– Mahatma Gandhi

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If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.
– Michael Crichton

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Study the past if you would define the future.
– Confucius

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Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.
– Peter Lamborn Wilson

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If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.
– Dean Kamen

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History is only a confused heap of facts.
– Lord Chesterfield

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Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.
– Edmund Burke

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Forget about the history, make the history.

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History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
– Robin Hobb

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The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.
-Adolf Hitler

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So much of history is mystery. We don’t know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.
– Amy Tan

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Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
– Alexander Pope

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
– Aldous Huxley

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