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"What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power."
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"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."
"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."
"History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!"
"If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!"
"The good thing about the aristocracy " German or English " was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought."
"Throughout the human history millions have died because of the kings and the queens, because of the presidents and the prime ministers, because of the Caesars and the duces, because of all these little charlatans with big ego!"
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"What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us."
"God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits."
"In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive."
"What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power."
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