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Those who dont know history are destined to repeat it. - Edmund Bu

Those who dont know history are destined to repeat it. – Edmund Burke

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If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

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OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. – James Nasmyth

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No modern idea has affected history more than the passion of nationalism. – Charles R. Poinsatte, Understanding History Through the American Experience

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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. – Ted Koppel

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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – Karl Marx

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