To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future. - Daisaku Ikeda

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Failure is impossible.

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. — Virginia Woolf

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

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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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History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness. — James Fenimore Cooper

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History has shown there are no invincible armies. ― Joseph Stalin

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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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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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