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

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

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

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

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

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?