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

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

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.

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

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

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

History is history.

History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.

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