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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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana

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It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. – George Santayana

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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts. – Bill Vaughan

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Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists. – Thomas Friedman

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Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books. – Thomas Carlyle, Life of Frederick the Great

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American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. – Camille Paglia

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