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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.

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It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole.

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

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God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

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The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

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Happy people have no history.

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

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

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Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

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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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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

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Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

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I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

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No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

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