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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfo

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. – Voltaire

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Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. Its a collective process. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. Its one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldnt live without. – Howard Nemerov

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The Communist regime didnt consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. – Kathryn Bigelow

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History is a pageant and not a philosophy. – Augustine Birrell, Obiter Dicta: The Muse of History

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