Interesting tidbits of and about history.
" The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. "
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
" Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. "
Edmund Burke
" If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. "
Rudyard Kipling
" The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. "
Winston Churchill
" History is a guide to navigation in perilous times.
History is who we are and why we are the way we are. "
David McCullough
" Memory is a tough place. You were there. "
Claudia Rankine
" History is a vast early warning system. "
Norman Cousins
" Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. "
Winston Churchill
" The past could be jettisoned...but seeds got carried. "
Joan Didion
" Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended. "
Confucius
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