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| It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. | |
| History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. | |
| Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects. | |
| Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. | |
| History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. | |
| History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. | |
| The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. | |
| The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. | |
| History, in general, only informs us what bad government is. | |
| The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. | |
| Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. | |
| Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. | |
| History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up. | |
| Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects. | |
| The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. | |
| History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. | |
| It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. | |
| History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. | |
| As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances. | |
| People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. | |
| The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. | |
| The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. | |
| We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. | |
| Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. | |
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