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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach”
Aldous Huxley
“The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.”
“Don't make excuses. Make things happen. Make changes. Then make history.”
Doug Hall
“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
Woody Allen
“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”
George Santayana
“History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead”
Voltaire
“History repeats itself; historians repeat each other”
Phillip Guedala
“It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”
Robert Francis Kennedy
“There is properly no history; only biography”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
