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• The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn.
  -- Earl Warren That men do not learn very much from history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach....
• Quote #602 History is the version of events that people have agreed upon. -- Napoleo
• Confidence is that wonderful feeling of self-assurance you have just before you fall flat on your face at high noon in the most public of places and in the most foolish manner possible before the largest crowd of people ever known to be in that place at that time in all recorded history.
• MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.
  As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee, the most ancient and famous city of the world, female heretics were thrown to the mice....
• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on.
  -- Napoleon Bonaparte, "Maxim...
• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
  -- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)...
• Truly innovative ideas do not arise from groups of people, but from individuals.
  When groups try to be creative, the members force each other to compromise and, as a result, creative ideas tend to be weakened and made more conventional....
• People have been so encouraged by society to focus on apparent differences that they fail to see meaningful similarities among ideas, individuals, and groups.
• Paul Reverse: Tory patriot who warned the British that the Americans were coming.
  -- Not-so-Famous People from History...