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History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. --Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. --Pearl Buck |
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. --African Proverb |
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Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree. --Michael Crichton |
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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. --Dick Gregory |
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A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. --Thomas Babington Macaulay |
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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. --Winston Churchill |
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. --Thomas Carlyle |
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History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. --Dexter Perkins |
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History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. --Charles Angoff |
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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! --George Macaulay Trevelyan |
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