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" Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. "

A. J. P. Taylor

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" History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. "

Clarence Darrow

History Repeats Itself

" If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself. "

" History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. "

A. J. P. Taylor

" Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. "

" To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin. "

Michael Beschloss

" The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism. "

A. J. P. Taylor

" The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph. "

Stephen Hawking

" Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. "

Francis Cabot Lowell

" It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. "

" My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate. "

Henry Kissinger

" My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm the son of my history. "

" The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. "

" Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin. "

" There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go. "

Lal Bahadur Shastri

" Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. "

" The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. "

" Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. "

" We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion. "

David Ebershoff

" History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another. "

Ellsworth Huntington

" America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. "

Georges Clemenceau

" Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. "

Edward R. Murrow

" Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. "

" Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history. "

Larry Brilliant

" I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like. "

" The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards. "

" I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. "

John Foster Dulles

" It's something that you pick up at a history class in college, the idea that history and time is something to which we can't even hold a candle to. We, as human beings, are just a small element in the overarching sweep of narrative history. That really had a profound effect on me, that realization. "

" The United States was born in revolution and nurtured by struggle. Throughout our history, the American people have befriended and supported all those who seek independence and a better way of life. "

" Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. "