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"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future."
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."
"Study the past, if you would divine the future."
"The history of the world is the biography of great men."
"History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes."
"History is a merciless judge."
"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
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"The history of a nation is, in many ways, the history of its currency."
"History is philosophy teaching by examples."
"Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted."
"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."
"The history of most countries has been that of majoritarian intolerance, spilling over into social tensions, civil conflict and military autocracy."
"A nation that does not know what it was yesterday does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about."
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles."
"History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in. I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me."
"History is the tale of this queen of nations, an encyclopaedia of such infinite interest that the greatest powers of the human mind are taxed in her service and happily employed."
"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
"The history of the world is the world's court of justice."
"The history of the world is a history of the duellum."
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"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; nothing else remains."
"The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again."
"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
"Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories."
"The function of History is to remind us that the world we live in was not built in a day, but it can be destroyed in a night."
"The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future."
"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
"History teaches us that unity is strength."
"History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely or even principally to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do."
"The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves."
"One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now."
"We are not makers of history; we are made by history."
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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."
"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty, and death of public opinion."
"History is the ship carrying living memories to the future."
"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
"When history is forgotten, when it's diluted or erased or rewritten, we are untethered."
"The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves."
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are."
"History has to be rewritten in every generation because although the past does not change, the present does."
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
"The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
"History, to be efficacious, must also be truthful."
"The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler."
"Because of the past, we live in our present. But if we focus too much on the past, we will never move forward."
"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
"History teaches everything, including the future."
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots."
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."
"Make history or be a part of it."
"I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You have to learn from the past but not be imprisoned by it."
"The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know."
"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."
"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
"History is a vast early warning system."
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, and if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
"History is written by the victors."
"History teaches, but has no pupils."
"History is the story of events, with praise or blame."
"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."
"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew."
"The purpose of studying history is to study the past, in order to find out why and how human beings behave the way they do."
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity."
"In reality, the past is preserved in oblivion by that portion of the past which has been unconsciously lapsed into it."
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