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Historians are gossips who tease the dead. --Voltaire |
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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. --Voltaire |
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History never looks like history when you are living through it. --John W. Gardner |
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. --H.L. Mencken |
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History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. --Konrad Adenauer |
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Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be. --P.J. O'Rourke |
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History is a vast early warning system. --Norman Cousins |
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. --H.L. Mencken |
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A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. --Richard Reeves |
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history? --Katharine Anthony |
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. --Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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