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• The message of history is clear: the past lies before us.
• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. -- Thomas Jefferso
• Skinner: If I were a truant boy out for a good time, I'd be right here
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• History teaches us only one thing: knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
• A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
  -- Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long...
• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
  -- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)...
• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
  -- Warren Buffet, Washington Po...
• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on.
  -- Napoleon Bonaparte, "Maxim...
• Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity.
  -- Omar Idn Al-Halif...