History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
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.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
History devours, but at times it resurrects. Some lives must wait for history to catch up.
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.
The history of the world is the story of people getting off track.
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
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