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

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We spend a great deal of time studying history, which, let’s face it, is mostly the history of stupidity. So

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No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create? ― Steve Maraboli

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History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all. - WILL DURANT

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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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History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. - KURT VONNEGUT

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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. - OSCAR WILDE

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A generation which ignores history has no past -- and no future.

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I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget. — George W. Bush

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History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

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