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“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice - their choice”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.”
Henry Ford
“Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it”
Jean Anouilh
“Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?”
Jack Handy
“All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The greatest man in history was the poorest”
“History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of ''history'' it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past”
Victor Hugo
“History repeats itself, has to, nobody listens”
Steve Turner
