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All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: History

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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. – Noam Chomsky

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In a certain sense all men are historians. – Thomas Carlyle, Essays: On History

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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people – history has made us all South Africans. – Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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History should be written as philosophy. – Voltaire

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