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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. I

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. – Claude Vorilhon

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Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, dont have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison. – Claude Vorilhon

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A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

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[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. – Fritz Stern, The Varieties of History

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There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. – Coretta Scott King

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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. – Abdul Kalam

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