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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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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. – John F. Kennedy

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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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From Caesars legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours. – David Cameron

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History is a living whole. If one organ be removed, it is nothing but a lifeless mass. – Frederic Harrison, The Meaning of History

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