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" History is information. Memory is part of your identity. "

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" I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life. "

" What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? "

Orson F. Whitney

" The existing legal constitution is nothing but the product of a revolution. Revolution is the act of political creation in the history of classes, while constitutional legislation is the expression of the continual political vegetation of a society. "

" Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. "

George Santayana

" If we look to the saints, this great luminous wake with which God has passed through history, we truly see that here is a force for good that survives through millennia; here is truly light from light. "

Pope Benedict XVI

" There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. "

" I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home. "

Deborah Moggach

" On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal. "

" I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop. "

" The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed. "

" History is a relay of revolutions. "

" Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed. "

" History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.' "

Eduardo Galeano

" In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised. "

" Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought. "

Charles Spurgeon

" All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. "

Friedrich Engels

" My memories are of my dad taking me to football on Saturday mornings, and my mum taking me swimming. Those are the things I remember from my childhood, not sitting around the table debating capitalism and the profit squeeze. "

" History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. "

" Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play. "

" History is a set of lies agreed upon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

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" Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. "

George Bernard Shaw

" I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. "

" My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. "

Stephen Hawking

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" Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me. "