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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it,

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world. – Sean Parker

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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. – Woodrow Wilson

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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. – Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary

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Radical historians now tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey. – Mason Cooley

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A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. – Thomas Carlyle

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Grandfathers are just antique little boys. – Author Unknown

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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. – Herman Melville

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