"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."

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"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

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"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

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"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

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"This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors."

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"The past is not a package one can lay away."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"An important part of what the state does is preserving its history."

James R. Thompson, American Politician

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