History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.' — Winston S. Churchill

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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future. - Garth Brooks

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It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes. ― Joseph Stalin

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What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future. - Ken Robinson

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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

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History is written by the winners.

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. - KARL MARX

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