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“History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.”
Mark Yost
“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”
Norman Cousins
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Karl Marx
“Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.”
George Bernard Shaw
“When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name”
Thomas Paine
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”
“The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice”
Mark Twain
“History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
