Quote by Konrad Adenauer
History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoide

History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. – Konrad Adenauer

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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. – Howard Nemerov

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History should be written as philosophy. – Voltaire

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But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. – Martin Heidegger

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