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Edmund Burke
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it
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Winston Churchill
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft
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Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for as I intend to write it
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Winston Churchill
History is written by the victors
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Winston Churchill
The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see
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Anatole France
All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious
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Gustave Flaubert
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times
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Ambrose Bierce
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools
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Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon
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Mohandas Gandhi
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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