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is all there
in black and white”
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History

 Even God cannot change the past. 
μόνου γὰρ αὐτοῦ καὶ θεὸς στερίσκεται, ἀγένητα ποιεῖν ἅσσ᾽ ἂν ᾖ πεπραγμένα.
Agathon (448 BCE-400 BCE)
 Even Napoleon had his Watergate. 
Anonymous
 History is just one bloody thing after another. 
Anonymous
 History is the certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. 
Julian Barnes (1946- )
 History repeats itself because nobody listens. 
Anonymous
 History repeats itself; historians repeat each other. 
Philip Guedalla (1889-1944)
 History started badly and hav been getting steadily worse. 
Geoffrey Willans (1911-1956)
 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. 
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
 I do not intend to prejudge the past. 
William Whitelaw (1918-1999)
 If history is written by the victors, legend is at the service of the vanquished. 
Steve Roud (1949- )
 In America a hundred years is a long time, in Europe a hundred miles is a long way. 
Anonymous
 In the beginning there was nothing. God said, “Let there be light”; and there was still nothing, but everybody could see it. 
Anonymous
 Soviet History 101: Who knows tomorrow what happened yesterday? 
Anonymous
 The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. 
Der Amerikaner, der den Kolumbus zuerst entdeckte, machte eine böse Entdeckung.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
 The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. 
L.P. Hartley (1895-1972)
 The past is never dead; it's not even past. 
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
 The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally. 
H.H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
 There was a time when religion ruled the world; it is known as the Dark Ages. 
Ruth Green (1915-1981)
 Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. 
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. 
George Santayana (1863-1952)
 We owe most of what we know to about one hundred men; we owe most of what we have suffered to another hundred or so. 
Anonymous
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