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“We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.”
Maya Angelou
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”
Haile Selassie
“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes”
Adolf Hitler
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
Isaac Newton
“I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.”
Ani Difranco
“History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”
Aristotle
“That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.”
Oscar Wilde
“Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it”
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
George Bernard Shaw
