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- Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.
- Gunnar Myrdal
- There is properly no history, only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
- When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
- Eugene V. Debs
- History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished. And how else could we discover the stars?
- Unknown
- What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story,
And the greatest good is little enough:
for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream
- Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.
- Hans A. Bethe
- History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon
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