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A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.
A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.
What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way read more
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a read more
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.