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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

George Bernard Shaw
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It's the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

Oscar Wilde
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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 is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.

Henry Ford
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.

Mahatma Ghandi
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. -Rudyard Kipling
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The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know.

Harry S Truman
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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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History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. -Augustine Birrell
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History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes.

Paul Eldridge
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau
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History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil. -Bob Dole
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History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

Horace Walpole
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What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.

William Paley
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The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. -Larry Summers
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History is philosophy learned from examples.

Dionysius
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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Cicero
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Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. -Jefferson Davis
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For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

J. W. Schopf
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The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

Voltaire
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. -Voltaire
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Ted Koppel
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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Konrad Adenauer
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My reading of history convinces me that most bad government has grown out of too much government. -John Sharp Williams
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History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.

Leonard Louis Levinson
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The vicissitudes of history, however, have not dissuaded them from their earnest search for a "third way" between socialism and capitalism, namely socialism.

Richard John Neuhaus
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If history has ended, it has been stopped at remarkable cost to the average US citizen. -Ben Manski
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History never looks like history when you are living through it.

John W. Gardner
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History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

John Lecarre
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Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party. -Joan Crawford
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