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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
Voltaire
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Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
E. M. Cioran
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Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
Edwin C. Bliss
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It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
Brian Friel
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Billy Joel
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
John Hersey
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Elizabeth II
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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
Richard M. Nixon
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle
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We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.
Adm Stansfield Turner
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