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Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

—George Santayana
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

—George Orwell
Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

—Rush Limbaugh
History doesn't repeat itself,
but it does rhyme.

—Mark Twain
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

—Erich Fromm
The past is always changing, but few realize it.

—Frank Herbert
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today.

—Henry Ford
A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.

—American Indian Proverb
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

—Winston Churchill
History never looks like history when you are living through it.

—John W. Gardner
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

—Wayne Dyer
The past is only the future with the lights on.

—+44
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

—George Carlin
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

—Plato
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

—James Thurber
History isn't repeated, but mistakes are.

—Abdul Hamid II
History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.

—Carl Sagan (1980)
We failed to recognize that in international affairs, as in other aspects of life, there may be problems for which there are no immediate solutions … At times, we may have to live with an imperfect, untidy world.

—Robert S McNamara (2003)
George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents... Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.

—Sean Wilentz (21/04/2006)
The Lunar landing of the astronauts is more than a step in history; it is a step in evolution.

—New York Times editorial (20/07/1969)

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