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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. – David McCullough

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History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. – Johan Huizinga

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Never in our countrys history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days. – Jo Bonner

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History

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis. – Michael Apted

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Secretly, Im a real big nerd. Id rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel. – Sprague Grayden

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Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as is the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator. – Marc Fumaroli

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President. – Harry S. Truman

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