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History is the distillation of rumor. - Thomas Carlyle

History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. – Thomas Carlyle

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Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural as an oak tree. It comes out of the past; its foundations are laid far back. – Wendell Phillips, Address, Anti-Slavery Society, 1852

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The main thing is to make history, not to write it. – Otto von Bismarck

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius

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Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. – Lech Walesa

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