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Quote by George Santayana
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who werent there. – George Santayana

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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. – George Santayana

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The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. – David Thelen

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History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. – Elias Canetti, The Human Province

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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. – Ben Stein

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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. – Jessamyn West

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