History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
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Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.
History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical.
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.