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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines
reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings
of antiquity.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Pro Publio Sestio
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn
anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want
to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the
history we made today.
Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), Interview in Chicago Tribune, May 25th, 1916
For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
J. W. Schopf
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
John W. Gardner (1912 - ), quoted by Bill Moyers
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
Leonard Louis Levinson
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt, in Time Magazine
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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