History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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

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

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

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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin

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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 the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

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