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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. – Robert A. Heinlein

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Those who dont know history are destined to repeat it. – Edmund Burke

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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. – Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History

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I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products. – Shigeru Miyamoto

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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth. – Alex Haley

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