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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. -- Warren Buffett
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. -- Marcus Garvey
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. -- James Martineau
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. -- Jerzy Kosinski
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? -- Philip Zimbardo
Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries. -- Kenzaburo Oe
I have issues with anyone who tries to claim that science is unworkable - creationists who deny evidence for past history, yet are happy to benefit from the products of the methodology that they otherwise deny. -- Liz Williams
The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history. -- Dalai Lama
We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction. -- Atifete Jahjaga
The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. -- James Hutton
Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. -- Abraham Lincoln
s past history and stand alone. -- Marion Woodman
Our past has gone into history. -- William McKinley
Your past history is NOT an excuse. -- Miya Yamanouchi
My country has no history, only a past. -- Alden Nowlan
Let go of your past. Start making history! -- Julie Connor
The past is history, the future's a mystery. -- James Toback
History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past. -- David Souter
History is past politics, and politics is present history. -- Edward Augustus Freeman
History is the stories we tell about the past. -- Thomas King
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history -- Herman Ebbinghaus
Very often history is a means of denying the past. -- Jeanette Winterson
It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past. -- Michael Moorcock
Psychology has a long past, but only a short history. -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
History is what we read, write and think about the past. -- Michael Howard
Why are we learning about the past, when this is History? -- Galinda Glinda
Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short. -- Hermann Ebbinghaus
That's history. I say history because it happened in the past. -- Murray Walker
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. -- A. Whitney Brown
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. -- Frank Herbert
We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history. -- Gary Chapman
History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present. -- David Von Drehle
In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. -- Donald Trump
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. -- Sarah Dessen
It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone. -- Marion Woodman
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. -- Johan Huizinga
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. -- Thomas Jefferson
The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down. -- A. Whitney Brown
Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple. -- David Shannon
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world. -- Jose Andres Puerta
The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment. -- Theodor Adorno
The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift. -- Lisa Unger
Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing. -- Sting
The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. -- David P. Thelen
Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind. -- W. H. Auden
Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse! -- Archimedes
There's no such thing as history, only historians. That's how we know about the past. -- Peter Greenaway
...is any history really all that ancient?...Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present? -- Margaret Peterson Haddix
More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. -- Robert Penn Warren
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. -- Eugene Jarecki
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future. -- Benjamin Cardozo
My fascination with history is as much about the present as it is about the past. -- Sara Sheridan
We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history. -- John McCain
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. -- Gore Vidal
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears. -- David Mitchell
In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other. -- Elizabeth Crook
The past is rich history. The present is sacred inscription. The future is yet to be written. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it. -- Hilary Mantel
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history? -- Julie Burchill
History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future. -- Runoko Rashidi
History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Do not bother about to be recorded in history, try not to become a thing of the past! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it. -- Leon Redbone
We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective. -- Umberto Eco
Women have always been an equal part of the past. We just havent been a part of history. -- Gloria Steinem
In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history. -- Sylvia Earle
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past. -- Aidan Chambers
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. -- Ken Burns
For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past. -- Gary Hamel
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. -- M. King Hubbert
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind. -- Robin G. Collingwood
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past. -- Antony Beevor
...history is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material -- Joshua Wolf Shenk
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. -- Victor Hugo
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives. -- James Russell Lowell
Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after. -- Marjane Satrapi
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. -- Ernest Dimnet
When I was really young, I wanted to be a history teacher because I was obsessed with the past. -- Russell Tovey
Of the past 3,400 years, humans have been entirely at peace for 268 of them, or just 8 percent of recorded history. -- Chris Hedges
What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery -- Mike Tyson
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future. -- Pope John Paul II
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else. -- Kara Walker
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. -- Jean Henri Fabre
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. -- Jean Henri Fabre
History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order. -- Robert Breault
I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future. -- Rachel Carson
The risk of any great luxury brand that has its history in the past is that it can get dusty. -- Maureen Chiquet
In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history. -- Anthony Doerr
Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. -- Azar Nafisi
Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future. -- Lee Ezell
The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free. -- John F. Kennedy
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -- Ken Burns
History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future. -- Henry Clausen
In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone. -- Nick Bilton
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. -- Penelope Lively
Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past. -- Lewis H. Lapham
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. -- Brian Friel
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past. -- Douglas Hurd
History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future. -- Ludwig von Mises
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past. -- A. J. P. Taylor
We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history. -- Haile Selassie
Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery. -- Eric Foner
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past -- John Berger
Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. -- Jean-Henri Fabre
History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past. -- Julian Jaynes
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. -- Indira Gandhi
History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities. -- Stephen Jay Gould
We study the past ecological history, with the conscience of the present ecological conditions. The key to predict future aquatic ecosystem changes. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. -- P. D. James
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past. -- Winston Churchill
History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies. -- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future. -- Peter Zumthor
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past. -- J. Frank Dobie
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took. -- Robin Hobb

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