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At that time they were thinking of themselves as barbarians, … Suddenly the Brothers Grimm came along and said, ‘No, our history is beautiful, our fairytales are beautiful.’ They were influential people who rose to positions of real prominence in society. Jacob became a politician, they were famous collaborators; they lived together with their families until they were old men working together, sharing, like, a little desk.
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At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape – into time.
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Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.
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Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing.
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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
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Dad, I’m in some trouble. There’s been an accident and you’re going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
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Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.
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Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth.- Fustel Coulanges
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Don’t brood on what’s past, but never forget it either.
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Don’t forget your history nor your destiny Bob Marley quotes
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Each generation gathers together the imperishable children of the past, and increases them by new sons of light, alike radiant with immortality.
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Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.
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Events in the past may roughly be divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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