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• The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors.
  History is written by the survivors. -- Max Lerne...
• That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
  Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)...
• That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
  -- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Collected Essay...
• The victors invariably write the history to their own advantage.
  -- Picard, "Contagion", stardate 42609.1...
• Science is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.
  Max Born (1882-1907) "My Life and My View...
• 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....
• A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. -- Max Eastma
• That great dust heap called 'history'" -- Birrel