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Lord Byron on History

“History is the devil's scripture.”

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“The past is the best prophet of the future.”

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Karl Marx

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“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

Otto von Bismarck

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“The main thing is to make history, not to write it”

Salman Rushdie

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“It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humani...”

Thomas Carlyle

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“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”

Dan Brown

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“The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”

Barbara Tuchman

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“Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.”

Edmund Burke

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“History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.”

Tocqueville

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“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”

Chuck Palahniuk

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“History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”

Heinrich Heine

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“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”

Malcolm X

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“History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.”

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