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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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because ‘What if?’ is the big thing. - KATE ATKINSON

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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. ― Tennessee Williams

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History is written by the winners.

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If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. - MICHAEL CRICHTON

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Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth. - Cornel West

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

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It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - LEONARDO DA VINCI

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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. – Steve Jobs

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We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

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