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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. – A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture

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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! – George Macaulay Trevelyan

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While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. – Eric Alterman

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I dont see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think weve been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women. – Salma Hayek

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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemys country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good. – Sun Tzu

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