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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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God cannot alter the past, but historians can. – Samuel Butler

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Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. – John Dewey, Characters and Events

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