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“The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.” 
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Thomas Sowell

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“The lack of historical memory is a serious shortcoming in our society. A mentality that can only say, “Then was then, now is now”, is ultimately immature. Knowing and judging past events is the only way to build a meaningful future. Memory is necessary for growth.” 
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Pope Francis

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“The history of Heroes is the history of Youth.”
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Benjamin Disraeli

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“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”
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Margaret Atwood

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“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”
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Margaret Thatcher

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“I find it difficult [to believe] that… Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or… hatred, because their own history and… teachings are filled with it.”
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Malcolm X

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"There is room in history for all of us."
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Alexander McCall Smith

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"I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory."
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Alexander The Great

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"I consider not what Parmenio should receive, but what Alexander should give."
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Alexander The Great

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"True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring."
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Alexander Dumas

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"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper, and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
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Edmund Burke

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"I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together."
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Friedrich Engels

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"Almost certainly, my ancestors had travelled by sea from Sweden to England in search of prosperity, and the evidence suggests they left Sweden around the ninth or 10th centuries."
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Gordon Brown

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"In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity."
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Leo Tolstoy

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We should not look down on our first ancestors.
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Alice Walker

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There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
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Bill Gates

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“The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about. Athletics don’t make anybody long-lived or useful.”
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George Santayana

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“The revolution does not need historians.” 

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Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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Mahatama Gandhi

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