“Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world.” -Ludwig von Mises (Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises (1881 - 1973))
“There is no life that does not contribute to history.” -Dorothy West (1907 - 1998): “The Living Is Easy” (1948)
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“The greatest lesson we can learn from the past . . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.” -Frederick Chiluba (Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba (1943 - 2011))
Matilda: What do historians talk about when they meet?
Matthew: Old times, of course!
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“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.” -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
In 1785 B.C.E., the first calendar, composed of a year with 354 days, was introduced by the Babylonians. This was quite a remarkable feat, if you really think about it, because humans before that time lived mostly without reliable methods for measuring the passage of days and for looking ahead to predict the coming of the changing seasons in order to know with greater certainty when to plant crops and when to prepare for seasonal weather-related events such as rivers flooding.
“Take three hundred men out of history and we should still be living in the stone age.” -Arthur Keith (1866 - 1955)
Benjamin B. Franklin, president of Associated Clubs, Incorporated had to arrange accommodations for Winston Churchill, grandson of the late prime minister, who was to be a guest speaker at one of his organization’s functions. Franklin phoned a hotel to make a reservation, saying, “I need a room for Winston Churchill.” “Uh, okay,” replied the clerk. “Who is this?” “Benjamin Franklin.” The clerk hung up.
“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.” -Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)
“They lived and loved and made beautiful things.” -Will Durant (William James ‘Will’ Durant (1885 - 1981)): “The History of Civilization”
“Evaluation of the past is the first step toward vision for the future.” -Chris Widener
“I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach.” -Bill Muse
Over several centuries, Hindus in India developed a system of numbers, culminating in the year 628 with the invention of 0, or zero, by an Indian astronomer and mathematician named Brahmagupta (about C.E. 598 - about C.E. 668). Arabs adopted this system, and in 1125, they introduced the Indian system of numbers to Europe. Today, most of the world counts and calculates with Indian Numerals: 1, 2, 3, 4 , 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0.
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“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.” -George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair (1903 - 1950))
“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965)): as quoted in Richard Langworth, editor: “Churchill by Himself” (2008), ‘Appendix I: Red Herrings,’ page 577
“If the world learned from history, how different both would be.” -Arnold H. Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1999))
“It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.” -Bill Vaughan (William Edward ‘Bill’ Vaughan (1915 - 1977))
“The time for extracting a lesson from history is ever at hand for those who are wise.” -Demosthenes (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)
“There are only two classes of people who live in history: those who crowd a thing to its extreme limit, and those who then arise and cry, ‘Hold!’” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.” -Baruch Spinoza (also known as Benedict de Spinoza, Bento de Espinosa, Benedito de Espinosa, and Benedict Spinoza (1632 - 1677))
“Our ancestors did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th century, without buttered bread until the 15th century, without potatoes until the 16th century, without coffee and tea and soup until the 17th century, without pudding until the 18th century, and without gas and matches and electricity until the 20th century. Now, what was it that we were complaining about?” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Sunshine Magazine”
“The history of the world is the record of man in quest of his daily bread and butter.” -Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882 - 1944): “The Arts” (1937)
“Your personal history is a part of the history of the world.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The highways of history are strewn with the wreckage of nations that forgot God.” -Author Unknown
In 1978, Mary Hargrafen, also known as Sister Mary Carl, became the first nun with the rank of captain in the United States Air Force. She belonged to the order of the Sisters of Saint Francis.
“A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future.” -Robert A. Heinlein (Robert Anson Heinlein (1907 - 1988)): “Time Enough for Love” (1973)
“The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.” [translation to English]
“Præcipium munus annalium reor, ne virtutes sileantur, utque pravis dictis, factisque ex posteritate et infamia metus sit.” [original Latin]
-Tacitus (about C.E. 55 - about C.E. 120): “Annales” (C.E. 117), III, 65
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.” -Marcus Garvey
History is curious stuff
You’d think by now we had enough
Yet the fact remains I fear
They make more of it every year.
-Author Unknown
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“When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior (1841 - 1935)
“The value of history . . . is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.” -R. G. Collingwood (Robin George Collingwood (1889 - 1943)): “The Idea of History” (1946)
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“To discover what the notable people of history were made of, simply look at your face in a mirror or your hands and feet.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
First Person: “I’m Henry the 8th. Who are you?”
Second Person: “I’m August the 12th.”
Ancient Egyptians proclaimed that the world was in the shape of a rectangle and that the heavens were held up by four giant pillars. They also warned sailors not to go too far away or they just might row off the giant rectangle called Earth. When the Queen of England heard this, she sent four ships south, north, east, and west to search for these ‘pillars.’ When they did not find any, because the world is actually in the shape of a sphere, the English questioned the Egyptians and the Egyptians told them the pillars must have been farther away than they predicted.
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“The final lesson of history is, ‘Let’s never go back there again.’” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))
“History never looks like history when you are living through it.” -John William Gardner (1912 - 2002): as quoted in Rhoda Thomas Tripp: “The International Thesaurus of Quotations” (1970), page 280
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Born on Holidays
I often pause and wonder
At fate’s peculiar ways,
For nearly all our famous folk
Were born on holidays.
by Author Unknown
“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -George Santayana (Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863 - 1952)): “The Life of Reason” (1905 - 1906), Volume I, chapter 12: ’Reason in Common Sense,’ page 284
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“History repeats itself.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): ‘Scenes of Clerical Life’ published anonymously in “Blackwood’s Magazine” (1857)
“History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.” -Blackie Sherrod (William Forrest ‘Blackie’ Sherrod (1919 - 2016))
“Maybe if we did a better job of listening, history wouldn’t have to repeat itself.” -Author Unknown
“History repeats itself, though less often than historians.” -Richard Norton Smith: ‘Our Literary Leaders,’ published in “The Weekly Standard” (28 March 2005)
“Every time history repeats itself, the cost goes up.” -Author Unknown
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“If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.” -Terry Venables
“If history does indeed repeat itself, then I want a pet dinosaur.” -Author Unknown
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“A people who cannot be bothered to study history, to preserve physical history, and to write and record history, will be unknown to future generations. In purposefully disregarding the past and in shrugging off present events, they ensure that they themselves will become forever forgotten with the passing of time.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.” -George Walden (born 1939)
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“History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.” -Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
“By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “On Reading Old Books” (1821)
Franklin: What did Paul Revere say as he passed a London barber shop?
Washington: “The British are combing, the British are combing!”
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The shortest war in history was in 1896, between Zanzibar and Great Britain, with Zanzibar surrendering after 38 minutes.
“In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.” -Ariel Durant and Will Durant (William James ‘Will’ Durant (1885 - 1981)): “The Lessons of History” (1968), page 81
Felicity: What ended in 1945?
Serendipity: 1944?
“History is a vast early warning system.” -Norman Cousins (1915 - 1990): as quoted in the “Saturday Review” (15 April 1978)
“History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days.” -Claude Gernade Bowers (1878 - 1958)
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“The past is no further away than the last breath you took.” -Robin Hobb (pseudonym of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born 1952))
Penny: Why aren’t you doing well in history?
Lenny: Because the teacher asks about things that happened before I was born!
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“Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child.” [translation to English]
“Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.” [original Latin]
-Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)): ”M. Tulli Ciceronis Orator Ad M. Brutum” (46 B.C.E.)
“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different . . .” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963)): “The Devils of Loudun” (1952)
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“Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.” -Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755): as quoted in Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “Life of Frederick the Great” (1858 - 1865; 6 volumes), Book XVI: ‘The Ten Years of Peace (1746 - 1756),’ Chapter I
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“Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.” -Nicholas Bentley
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“The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” -Abba Eban (born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban (1915 - 2002)): speech (16 December 1970) in London, England; as quoted in “The Times” (17 December 1970) newspaper of London, England
“What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.” -Abraham Lincoln: speech on the sub-Treasury, in the hall of the House of Representatives, Springfield, Illinois (December 26, 1839), as quoted in Roy P. Basler, editor: “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln” (1953), volume 1, page 165
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963)): “Collected Essays” (1958)
“Our history is not our destiny. . .” -Alan Cohen: as quoted in Eric Allenbaugh: “Wake-Up Calls: You Don’t Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!”
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“The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.” -Ivern Ball (1926 - 1992)
“When we read history, we find stories mainly of wars, politics, persecution, and crimes. What we seldom find are stories of farmers who fed entire nations, or seamstresses who made uniforms for marching bands and gowns for brides, or shoemakers who outfitted whole towns. The largely forgotten or untold stories of the people who actually built civilizations has been long neglected and ignored in favor of those who destroyed civilizations by persecuting and murdering the good and the innocent people. This is a gross error in human existence that needs to be corrected so that going forward into whatever future lies ahead for humankind, we get more farmers and seamstresses and shoemakers and fewer destroyers and evildoers, because we get what we focus on.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“It takes people to make history, and people to record it.” -Author Unknown
“We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.” -Claude Gernade Bowers (1878 - 1958)
“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.” -Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
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“Give the historians something to write about.” -Propertius (about 45 B.C.E. - 15 B.C.E.)
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“There is a history in all men’s lives.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Henry IV” (1596 - 1599), Act III, scene 1, line 1785; words of fictional character Earl of Warwick
“For a person to live in a country, and to be ignorant of its history on almost every issue that comes up, means that he is really walking around in the dark all the time. I think that history can give you a sense of courage in a difficult and dark world. You can say to yourself: I at least know something about this world, I know how it got the way it is, I know where it’s possibly going, not certainly but possibly. I can stand up against the world.” -Donald Creighton
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We are MFOL! . . . scanning history for the humorous, the inspirational, and the educational . . . to shine a light on it for all the world to see . . .
“There is no life that does not contribute to history.” -Dorothy West (1907 - 1998): “The Living Is Easy” (1948)
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“The greatest lesson we can learn from the past . . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.” -Frederick Chiluba (Frederick Jacob Titus Chiluba (1943 - 2011))
Matilda: What do historians talk about when they meet?
Matthew: Old times, of course!
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“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.” -Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
In 1785 B.C.E., the first calendar, composed of a year with 354 days, was introduced by the Babylonians. This was quite a remarkable feat, if you really think about it, because humans before that time lived mostly without reliable methods for measuring the passage of days and for looking ahead to predict the coming of the changing seasons in order to know with greater certainty when to plant crops and when to prepare for seasonal weather-related events such as rivers flooding.
“Take three hundred men out of history and we should still be living in the stone age.” -Arthur Keith (1866 - 1955)
Benjamin B. Franklin, president of Associated Clubs, Incorporated had to arrange accommodations for Winston Churchill, grandson of the late prime minister, who was to be a guest speaker at one of his organization’s functions. Franklin phoned a hotel to make a reservation, saying, “I need a room for Winston Churchill.” “Uh, okay,” replied the clerk. “Who is this?” “Benjamin Franklin.” The clerk hung up.
“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.” -Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)
“They lived and loved and made beautiful things.” -Will Durant (William James ‘Will’ Durant (1885 - 1981)): “The History of Civilization”
“Evaluation of the past is the first step toward vision for the future.” -Chris Widener
“I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach.” -Bill Muse
Over several centuries, Hindus in India developed a system of numbers, culminating in the year 628 with the invention of 0, or zero, by an Indian astronomer and mathematician named Brahmagupta (about C.E. 598 - about C.E. 668). Arabs adopted this system, and in 1125, they introduced the Indian system of numbers to Europe. Today, most of the world counts and calculates with Indian Numerals: 1, 2, 3, 4 , 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0.
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“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.” -George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair (1903 - 1950))
“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.” -Winston Churchill (Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965)): as quoted in Richard Langworth, editor: “Churchill by Himself” (2008), ‘Appendix I: Red Herrings,’ page 577
“If the world learned from history, how different both would be.” -Arnold H. Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1999))
“It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.” -Bill Vaughan (William Edward ‘Bill’ Vaughan (1915 - 1977))
“The time for extracting a lesson from history is ever at hand for those who are wise.” -Demosthenes (384 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)
“There are only two classes of people who live in history: those who crowd a thing to its extreme limit, and those who then arise and cry, ‘Hold!’” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))
“If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.” -Baruch Spinoza (also known as Benedict de Spinoza, Bento de Espinosa, Benedito de Espinosa, and Benedict Spinoza (1632 - 1677))
“Our ancestors did without sugar until the 13th century, without coal fires until the 14th century, without buttered bread until the 15th century, without potatoes until the 16th century, without coffee and tea and soup until the 17th century, without pudding until the 18th century, and without gas and matches and electricity until the 20th century. Now, what was it that we were complaining about?” -Author Unknown: as quoted in “Sunshine Magazine”
“The history of the world is the record of man in quest of his daily bread and butter.” -Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882 - 1944): “The Arts” (1937)
“Your personal history is a part of the history of the world.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“The highways of history are strewn with the wreckage of nations that forgot God.” -Author Unknown
In 1978, Mary Hargrafen, also known as Sister Mary Carl, became the first nun with the rank of captain in the United States Air Force. She belonged to the order of the Sisters of Saint Francis.
“A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future.” -Robert A. Heinlein (Robert Anson Heinlein (1907 - 1988)): “Time Enough for Love” (1973)
“The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.” [translation to English]
“Præcipium munus annalium reor, ne virtutes sileantur, utque pravis dictis, factisque ex posteritate et infamia metus sit.” [original Latin]
-Tacitus (about C.E. 55 - about C.E. 120): “Annales” (C.E. 117), III, 65
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.” -Marcus Garvey
History is curious stuff
You’d think by now we had enough
Yet the fact remains I fear
They make more of it every year.
-Author Unknown
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“When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior (1841 - 1935)
“The value of history . . . is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.” -R. G. Collingwood (Robin George Collingwood (1889 - 1943)): “The Idea of History” (1946)
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“To discover what the notable people of history were made of, simply look at your face in a mirror or your hands and feet.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
First Person: “I’m Henry the 8th. Who are you?”
Second Person: “I’m August the 12th.”
Ancient Egyptians proclaimed that the world was in the shape of a rectangle and that the heavens were held up by four giant pillars. They also warned sailors not to go too far away or they just might row off the giant rectangle called Earth. When the Queen of England heard this, she sent four ships south, north, east, and west to search for these ‘pillars.’ When they did not find any, because the world is actually in the shape of a sphere, the English questioned the Egyptians and the Egyptians told them the pillars must have been farther away than they predicted.
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“The final lesson of history is, ‘Let’s never go back there again.’” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900))
“History never looks like history when you are living through it.” -John William Gardner (1912 - 2002): as quoted in Rhoda Thomas Tripp: “The International Thesaurus of Quotations” (1970), page 280
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Born on Holidays
I often pause and wonder
At fate’s peculiar ways,
For nearly all our famous folk
Were born on holidays.
by Author Unknown
“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” -Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -George Santayana (Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863 - 1952)): “The Life of Reason” (1905 - 1906), Volume I, chapter 12: ’Reason in Common Sense,’ page 284
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“History repeats itself.” -George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, possibly also known as Marian Evans Cross (1819 - 1880)): ‘Scenes of Clerical Life’ published anonymously in “Blackwood’s Magazine” (1857)
“History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.” -Blackie Sherrod (William Forrest ‘Blackie’ Sherrod (1919 - 2016))
“Maybe if we did a better job of listening, history wouldn’t have to repeat itself.” -Author Unknown
“History repeats itself, though less often than historians.” -Richard Norton Smith: ‘Our Literary Leaders,’ published in “The Weekly Standard” (28 March 2005)
“Every time history repeats itself, the cost goes up.” -Author Unknown
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“If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.” -Terry Venables
“If history does indeed repeat itself, then I want a pet dinosaur.” -Author Unknown
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“A people who cannot be bothered to study history, to preserve physical history, and to write and record history, will be unknown to future generations. In purposefully disregarding the past and in shrugging off present events, they ensure that they themselves will become forever forgotten with the passing of time.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.” -George Walden (born 1939)
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“History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in . . . I read it a little as a duty; but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all.” -Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
“By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.” -William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830): “On Reading Old Books” (1821)
Franklin: What did Paul Revere say as he passed a London barber shop?
Washington: “The British are combing, the British are combing!”
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The shortest war in history was in 1896, between Zanzibar and Great Britain, with Zanzibar surrendering after 38 minutes.
“In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.” -Ariel Durant and Will Durant (William James ‘Will’ Durant (1885 - 1981)): “The Lessons of History” (1968), page 81
Felicity: What ended in 1945?
Serendipity: 1944?
“History is a vast early warning system.” -Norman Cousins (1915 - 1990): as quoted in the “Saturday Review” (15 April 1978)
“History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days.” -Claude Gernade Bowers (1878 - 1958)
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“The past is no further away than the last breath you took.” -Robin Hobb (pseudonym of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden (born 1952))
Penny: Why aren’t you doing well in history?
Lenny: Because the teacher asks about things that happened before I was born!
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“Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child.” [translation to English]
“Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.” [original Latin]
-Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.)): ”M. Tulli Ciceronis Orator Ad M. Brutum” (46 B.C.E.)
“The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different . . .” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963)): “The Devils of Loudun” (1952)
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“Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.” -Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755): as quoted in Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881): “Life of Frederick the Great” (1858 - 1865; 6 volumes), Book XVI: ‘The Ten Years of Peace (1746 - 1756),’ Chapter I
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“Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.” -Nicholas Bentley
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“The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero (also known as Tully or simply Cicero (106 B.C.E. - 43 B.C.E.))
“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” -Abba Eban (born Aubrey Solomon Meir Eban (1915 - 2002)): speech (16 December 1970) in London, England; as quoted in “The Times” (17 December 1970) newspaper of London, England
“What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.” -Abraham Lincoln: speech on the sub-Treasury, in the hall of the House of Representatives, Springfield, Illinois (December 26, 1839), as quoted in Roy P. Basler, editor: “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln” (1953), volume 1, page 165
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” -Aldous Huxley (Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 - 1963)): “Collected Essays” (1958)
“Our history is not our destiny. . .” -Alan Cohen: as quoted in Eric Allenbaugh: “Wake-Up Calls: You Don’t Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!”
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“The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.” -Ivern Ball (1926 - 1992)
“When we read history, we find stories mainly of wars, politics, persecution, and crimes. What we seldom find are stories of farmers who fed entire nations, or seamstresses who made uniforms for marching bands and gowns for brides, or shoemakers who outfitted whole towns. The largely forgotten or untold stories of the people who actually built civilizations has been long neglected and ignored in favor of those who destroyed civilizations by persecuting and murdering the good and the innocent people. This is a gross error in human existence that needs to be corrected so that going forward into whatever future lies ahead for humankind, we get more farmers and seamstresses and shoemakers and fewer destroyers and evildoers, because we get what we focus on.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“It takes people to make history, and people to record it.” -Author Unknown
“We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience.” -Claude Gernade Bowers (1878 - 1958)
“The main thing is to make history, not to write it.” -Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
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“Give the historians something to write about.” -Propertius (about 45 B.C.E. - 15 B.C.E.)
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“There is a history in all men’s lives.” -William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616): “Henry IV” (1596 - 1599), Act III, scene 1, line 1785; words of fictional character Earl of Warwick
“For a person to live in a country, and to be ignorant of its history on almost every issue that comes up, means that he is really walking around in the dark all the time. I think that history can give you a sense of courage in a difficult and dark world. You can say to yourself: I at least know something about this world, I know how it got the way it is, I know where it’s possibly going, not certainly but possibly. I can stand up against the world.” -Donald Creighton
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