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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see th

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. – Mao Zedong

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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. – Miguel de Unamuno, En Gredos

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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt

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No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time. – Earl R. Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities

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