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Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.
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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.
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Once you get into this great stream of history you can’t get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the tide. But it is awfully hard to get out when you are in the middle of the stream – if it is intended that you stay there.
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.
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One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, – to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.
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One of the things important about history is to remember the true history.- George W. Bush
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One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That’s the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.
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Only the vanquished remember history. Marshall McLuhan quotes
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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
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Our best history is still poetry.
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals.
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Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.
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Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
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Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
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People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.- Jane Haddam
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People and governments have never learned anything from history.
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People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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