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

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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

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The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win. ― Karl Marx

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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. -- Walt Whitman

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The more stitches, the less riches.

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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. ― Karl Marx

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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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