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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one read more
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up read more
I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.