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

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

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All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

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

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

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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Kings are the slaves of history.

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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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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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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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.

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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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The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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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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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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