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

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Language is the archives of history.

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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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The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.

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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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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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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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Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life.

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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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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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All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

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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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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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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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In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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I am the dream and the hope of the slave

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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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In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

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