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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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H.G. Wells

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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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H.G. Wells

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Might does not make right, it only makes history.
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Jim Fiebig

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Our best history is still poetry.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.
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Gustave Flaubert

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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
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Edmund Burke

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Study men, not historians.
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Harry S Truman

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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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Marcus T. Cicero

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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
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James A. Froude

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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
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Karl Marx

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The history of mankind is his character.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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Ernest Dimnet

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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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Thomas Carlyle

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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Otto Von Bismarck

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The men who make history have not time to write it.
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Klemens Von Metternich

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The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
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Friedrich Hegel

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The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.
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R. Buckminster Fuller

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The Thames is liquid history.
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John Burns

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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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Thomas Carlyle

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There is a history in all men's lives.
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William Shakespeare

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Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
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African Proverb

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While we read history we make history.
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George William Curtis

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