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“history is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

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“History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.”

― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

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“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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“The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“History . . . is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

― James Joyce, Ulysses

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“Poetry, therefore, is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.”

― Aristotle, Poetics

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“History knows no resting places and no plateaus.”

― Henry Kissinger, White House Years

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“The Register of Knowledge Of Fact is called History.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

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“The History of the World, I said already, was the Biography of Great Men.”

― Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes

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