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Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.

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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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

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Our best history is still poetry.

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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 in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

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Every generation tailors history to its taste.

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A turning point in modern history.

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The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

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Language is the archives of history.

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

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The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

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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 never repeats itself. Man always does.

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