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• We learn from history that we do not learn from history

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Wisdom, Time, Thinking

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• History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Past, Names, People

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• A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Men, Egypt

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.10

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• The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Design, Littles, Narrative

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson”, p.398

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• All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inarticulate

  Thomas Carlyle (1901). “Carlyle on Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History”

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• History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Records, Stories, Scar

  Gretel Ehrlich (1989). “Heart Mountain”, Vintage

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• History -- its what those bitter old men write.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Writing, Men, Bitter

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• There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Wisdom, Events, Equal

  Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.145, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• At no time within the last five-hundred years can one point to a single instance of the Negro as a race of haters.

  Marcus Garvey

  Race, Years, African American

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.12, Ravenio Books

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• The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

  Marcus Garvey

  Destiny, Race, African American

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Blessing, African American, Democracy

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• The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Past, Echoes, Hints

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.221

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• They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Earth, Walks

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1856). “Poetical Works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Illustrated with Upwards of One Hundred and Sixty Engravings on Wood, from Designs by Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster, Etc”, p.203

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• The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Philosophy, Real

  1975 Humboldt's Gift.

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• At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Perfect, Dumb

  Thomas Carlyle, Oliver Cromwell, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

  Washington Irving

  Men, Calendars, Fellow Man

  1809 A History of NewYork, bk.4, ch.1.

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• The long historian of my country's woes.

  Homer

  Country, Long, Woe

  Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.331

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• Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Order, Littles, Reign

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.117, Modern Library

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• History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.

  Howard Zinn

  Hope, Kindness, Future

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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.

  Eric Hoffer

  Games, Political, Majority

  ERIC HOFFER (1963). “THE TRUE BELIEVER”

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• History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

  Malcolm X

  Inspiring, Memories, Men

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here in your mind, muddying your present moments. Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much longer. But all are necessary, otherwise they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 03, 2012

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• Kings are the slaves of history.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Kings, Historical, Slave

  Leo Tolstoy (2011). “War and Peace: Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky”, p.605, Vintage

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• History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Lying, Usual

  'The Devil's Disciple' (1901) act 3

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