Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
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History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
Things have never been more like the way they are today in 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.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
One thing I've learned over these last 30 or 40 years is that people make history. There's no fait accompli to any of this.
Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.
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