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History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.

While we read history we make history.

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.

Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.