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A.J.P. Taylor
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
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A.L. Rowse, The Use of History
Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
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African Proverb
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
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Albert Camus, The Rebel
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
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Allen Johnson, The Historian and Historical Evidence
A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life.
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Allen Nevins
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.
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Aristide Briand
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.
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