"History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues."
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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
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"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."
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"If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you."
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"The future has a way of arriving unannounced."
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"It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature."
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"Every past is worth condemning."
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"If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all."
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"All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake."
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"The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also."
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
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"History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property."
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"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
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"History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in."
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"History, that excitable and unreliable old lady."
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"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end."
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"What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history."
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"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death."
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"We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry."
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"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization."
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