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History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other. - Ar

History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other. – Arthur Balfour

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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. – Arthur Balfour

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The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedys murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. – Lance Morrow

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – Abraham Lincoln

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We are the prisoners of history. Or are we? – Robert Penn Warren, Segregation

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Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. – George Michael

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