Samuel Butler's Quote - God cannot alter the past, but historians can. – Samuel Butler

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God cannot alter the past, but historians can. - Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, but historians can. – Samuel Butler

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Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler

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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. Its really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. – Nikki Giovanni

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These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor – and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror. – Michael N. Castle

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History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another. – Jacob Burckhardt

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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. – James Stockdale

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