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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| "A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass." | |
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Proverb
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| "After you"ve heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident it
makes you wonder about history. How do we know, for sure, what ever
happened anywhere?" | |
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Unknown
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| "Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove,
could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it
hath witnessed,?render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been
trod!" | |
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William Wordsworth
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| "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she
gets the more interested he is in her." | |
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Agatha Christie
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| "An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in
the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for
a fresh view." | |
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Samuel Eliot Morison
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| "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what
they sought." | |
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Matsuö Basho
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| "Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably
never happened and those which do not matter." | |
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Dr. William Ralph Inge
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| "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can
never learn anything from history." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle;
natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to
contend." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other." | |
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Arthur James, Lord Balfour
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| "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." | |
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James Joyce
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| "History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living." | |
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Lawrence Durrell
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| "History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes
which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most
active." | |
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Abigail Smith Adams
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| "History is philosophy teaching by examples." | |
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Dionysius of Halicarnassus
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| "History is the sum total of things that could have been
avoided." | |
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Konrad Adenauer
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| "History knows no resting places and no plateaus." | |
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Henry Alfred Kissinger
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| "History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action,
like practical life, and if you don?t use the stuff ? well, it might as
well be dead." | |
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Arnold Joseph Toynbee
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| "History repeats itself, and that"s one of the things that"s wrong
with history." | |
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Clarence Seward Darrow
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| "History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is
more often shaped by the many acts of the small." | |
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Mark Yost
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| "Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas." | |
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Herbert George Wells
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| "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that
events have controlled me." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world
during which the condition of the human race was most happy and
prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the
death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus. [96?180 A.D.]" | |
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Edward Gibbon
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| "If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people
would be librarians." | |
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Warren Buffett
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| "It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians
can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that
He tolerates their existence." | |
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Samuel Butler, the Younger
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| "It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We
hire a man, not a history." | |
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Henry Ford
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| "Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far,
justice is always in jeopardy." | |
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Walt Whitman
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| "Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you
find." | |
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| "Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost
impossibly difficult." | |
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Nicholas Bentley
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| "Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor
leave it behind." | |
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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| "My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is
poor reading." | |
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Thomas Hardy
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| "Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always
a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must
remain always in the infancy of knowledge." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded." | |
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Virginia Woolf
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| "One must always maintain one"s connection to the past and yet
ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a
love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant
imaginative effort." | |
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Gaston Bachelard
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| "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say." | |
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Will Durant
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| "Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as
including our own." | |
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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| "Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the
expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and
hopes." | |
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Marian Wright Edelman
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| "PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum.
Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Study men, not historians." | |
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Harry S. Truman
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| "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the
most important of all the lessons of history." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "The farther backwards you can look, the farther forward you are
likely to see." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "The great thing about History is that it is adaptable." | |
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Peter Ustinov
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| "The history of liberty has largely been the history of the
observance of procedural safeguards." | |
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Felix Frankfurter
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| "The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of
governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist ...
concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death, because
concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human
liberties." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "The men who make history, have not time to write it." | |
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Prince Klemens Wenzel Lothar Von Metternich
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| "The past is a work of art, full of irrelevancies and loose
ends." | |
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Sir Max Beerbohm
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| "The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human
life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with
profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay,
the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and stor" | |
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Freeman Dyson
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| "The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid
prejudice." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "The worst thing about history is that every time it repeats itself,
the price goes up." | |
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Pillar
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| "Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat
it." | |
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George Santayana
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| "Throughout history it has been the inaction of those who could have
acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence
of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible
for evil to triumph." | |
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Haile Selassie
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| "We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it,
but to see if we can escape from it." | |
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José Ortega y Gasset
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| "We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the
history of the world ? or to make it the last." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "What is history but a fable agreed upon?" | |
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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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." | |
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William Paley
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| "You can"t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire.
All you"re doing is recording it." | |
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Art Buchwald
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