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

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

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

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

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

History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.

History is history.

History is history. What is done is done.