The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

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A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read.

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Rogers, Will

I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is a tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

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Ford, Henry

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

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Ismeretlen

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

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Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary.

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A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.

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Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.

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Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones,
Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones.

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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.

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