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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. – Jules Romains, Men of Good Will

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People tend to forget that the word “history” contains the word “story”. – Ken Burns

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History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. – Dexter Perkins

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Part of what I loved – and love – about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. Im interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. Im interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books. – Jon Meacham

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We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play. РR̩gis Debray, Revolution in the Revolution?

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