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Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Planning
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. – James Buchan

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Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history. – Norman Borlaug

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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

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History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. – Jules Romains, Men of Good Will

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