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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. - Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. – Voltaire

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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. – Will Durant

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History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler. – Henry Glassie

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WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so its inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. – Christopher Hitchens

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Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow. – Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers

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To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours. – Jon Landau

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