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The historian holds out a sieve and most of the past, the real past, goes through it. People’s feelings, people’s intimacies, they all go through the sieve, and all that’s left is a few scraps and lumps.

— Robert Lacy, The Crown, Season 2: How True Is It?

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Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

— Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

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

— Stephen Dedalus, Ulysses

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History doesn't always move forward.

— Matt O'Brien, The world’s losers are revolting, and Brexit is only the beginning

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I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

— Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

— Hermann Hesse, My Belief: Essays on Life and Art

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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

— Adrienne Rich, Race, Class, and Gender in "Medieval" Cinema (The New Middle Ages

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It is not your privilege as a nation to speak of a distant past.

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That’s all history is, after all: scar tissue.

— Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history, is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

— Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

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When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

— Stephen King, Joyland

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I've always liked the notion of meeting the great figures of history. But then I think: what if it's like high school and all the really cool dead people don't want to hang out with me? Mozart'll tell me he's busy but then later I'll see him out with Shakespeare and Lincoln!

— Niles Crane (David Hyde Pierce), Frasier, Season 4: Death and the Dog

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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

— T. S. Eliot, via GoodReads

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The first creatures on earth to become aware of time were also the first creatures to smile.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

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Revolution is the sense of the historical moment; it is changing everything that must be changed.

— Fidel Castro, Speech

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No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?

— Steve Maraboli, Life, The Truth, and Being Free

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Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.

— Richard L. Currier, Unbound: How Eight Technologies Made Us Human, Transformed Society, and Brought Our World to the Brink

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This is urgent. Continued failure to deal with our country’s race-based historical traumas dooms us to perpetually re-enact them.

— Fania Davis, This Country Needs a Truth and Reconciliation Process on Violence Against African Americans—Right Now

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The past does not cease to exist simply because we lose our memory of it.

— Robert Pogue Harrison, Juvenescence: A Cultural History of Our Age

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We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.

— Stephen Hawking, Mediocre GDC

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I wonder why nobody has ever called pre-historic cave paintings Graffiti. Maybe that’s precisely what it was back then.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, via Twitter

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Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. — Oprah Winfrey

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We were not brought here to be made citizens. We were brought here against our will. We were not brought here to enjoy the constitutional gifts that they speak so beautifully about.

— Malcolm X, 13th

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All stories begun and enacted by men unfold their true meaning only when they have come to their end.

— Hannah Arendt, On Revolution

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Science writers don't call themselves scientists, which is pragmatic and wise, and I do strongly believe the same goes with history. If you write about history but lack training, so what, keep fighting the good fight, but do call yourself a history writer.

— Alexis Coe, via twitter.com

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