History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
History is history. What is done is done.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.
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.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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.
The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.
While we read history we make history.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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