"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."

History, Events, Fools, Soldiers

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"History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."

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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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