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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
- in history
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What we do about history matters. The often repeated saying that those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat
them has a lot of truth in it. But what are 'the lessons of history'? The very attempt at definition furnishes ground for new
conflicts. History is not a recipe book; past events are never replicated in the present in quite the same way. Historical
events are infinitely variable and their interpretations are a constantly shifting process. There are no certainties to be
found in the past.
- in history
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History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
- in history
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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas—a place where
history comes to life.
- in history
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Patriotism ruins history.
- in history
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History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
- in history
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All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.
- in history
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The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that ... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about
themselves.
- in history
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may
venture to call himself an architect.
- in history
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The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
- in history
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future
but by the past.
- in history
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One faces the future with one's past.
- in history
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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the
sound of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
- in history
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end
product, myth.
- in history
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No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
- in history
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
- in history
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History, a distillation of rumour.
- in history
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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
- in history
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History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
- in history
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