Quotations on History
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-Clarence Darrow
History is fables agreed upon.
-Voltaire
Does History repeat itself? History just burps, and we taste again the raw onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.
-Julian Barnes
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
-Paul Harvey
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
-Leonard Louis Levinson
History is a vast early warning system.
-Norman Cousins
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.
-Murray Edelman

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