"God cannot alter the past, though historians can."
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"To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity."
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"But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret."
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"It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity."
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"We must be the great arsenal of Democracy."
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"Sanity is madness put to good use."
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"The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form."
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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
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"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."
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"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."
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"Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features"
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"Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it."
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"I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm."
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"Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature."
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"History is not was, it is."
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"Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met."
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"What is past is prologue."
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"The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give."
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"History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction."
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"History is the essence of innumerable biographies."
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