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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856

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When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on. – John Malkovich

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We cant understand when were pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time – like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. – Anne Lamott

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A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black mans right to his body, or womans right to her soul. – Emma Goldman

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