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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

by Adrienne Rich Found in: Past Quotes,
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

by Samuel Butler Found in: History Quotes,
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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

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There is properly no history, only biography.

There is properly no history, only biography.

by Ralph Waldo Emerson Found in: History Quotes,
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

by Mark Twain Found in: History Quotes,
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

by Abraham Lincoln Found in: History Quotes,
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John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
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John Anderson, my jo, John,
When we were first acquent,
Your locks were like the raven,
Your bonny brow was brent.

by Robert Burns Found in: Past Quotes,
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You have to know the past to understand the present.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

by Dr. Carl Sagan Found in: Past Quotes,
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I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

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