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

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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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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

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A turning point in modern history.

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

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

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

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Our best history is still poetry.

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

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We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

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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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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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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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It's so damned humiliating.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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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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