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Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

While we read history we make history.

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

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