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Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

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The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Death Quotes , History Quotes

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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History paints the human heart.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

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History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

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The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

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