The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. - ERNEST DIMNET

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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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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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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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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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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