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Quote by Dag Hammarskjold
Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And t

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. – Dag Hammarskjold

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The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Truth
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. – Dag Hammarskjold

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History
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For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado. – Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary

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Throughout this countrys history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass. – Eric Liu

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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! – George Macaulay Trevelyan

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Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing. – Willis Thornton, Fable, Fact and History

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