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David C. McCullough

"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."

David C. McCullough, American Historian
History, Navigation
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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist
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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
History, Religion, Morality, Mankind
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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."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist
History, Death, Decay, Memory
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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."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author
History, Symbolism, Patriotism, Emotion
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"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown
History, Country, City, America
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"The past is not a package one can lay away."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet
History, Past, Memory, Time
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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
History, Memory, Study, Truth
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Amber Hurdle

"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
History, Power, Justice, Strength
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Amber Hurdle

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

James R. Thompson, American Politician
History, State
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist
History, Men

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