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“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull burst like a ripe cabbage showering his horrified comrades with viscous brain and bits of bone.”
― Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
― Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
![Steve Maraboli](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1574364064i/4491185._UY200_CR10,0,200,200_.jpg)
“No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?”
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
![Claudia Clark](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1633388334i/21883479._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the press a big smile, saying, ‘I think what she said was good. I’m teasing.’ The laughter in the room drowned out the sounds of the cameras clicking and flashing, with Merkel’s giggle and smile among the loudest.”
― Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
― Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
![Benjamin Franklin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1215314094i/289513._UX200_CR0,54,200,200_.jpg)
“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.
[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]”
― The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin
[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]”
― The Life and Letters of Benjamin Franklin
![Emilie Autumn](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1510961475i/2528119._UX200_CR0,28,200,200_.jpg)
“History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.”
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
― The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
![Willa Cather](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1443393955i/881203._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.”
― O Pioneers!
― O Pioneers!
![Elizabeth Kostova](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1360044214i/5918._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.”
― The Historian
― The Historian
![Hugo Hamilton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1255590014i/52833._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.”
― The Sailor in the Wardrobe
― The Sailor in the Wardrobe
![Susan Sontag](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615556608i/7907._UX200_CR0,17,200,200_.jpg)
“Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.”
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![Stanley Wolpert](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1369771269i/102523._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.”
― Jinnah of Pakistan
― Jinnah of Pakistan
![Priya Ardis](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1322096493i/5347052._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.”
Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.”
― My Merlin Awakening
Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you.”
― My Merlin Awakening
![Jeffrey Eugenides](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1374107943i/1467._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
![Khaled Hosseini](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1359753468i/569._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“And that, ...is the story of our country, one invasion after another...Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we're like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
![Michael H. Hart](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1326477072i/62774._UY200_CR46,0,200,200_.jpg)
“My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.”
― The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
― The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History
![Leo Tolstoy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651443031i/128382._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand. ”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
![Tommy Orange](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1655843185i/17205711._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“This is the thing: If you have the option to not think about or even consider history, whether you learned it right or not, or whether it even deserves consideration, that’s how you know you’re on board the ship that serves hors d’oeuvres and fluffs your pillows, while others are out at sea, swimming or drowning, or clinging to little inflatable rafts that they have to take turns keeping inflated, people short of breath, who’ve never even heard of the words hors d’oeuvres or fluff. Then someone from up on the yacht says, "It's too bad those people down there are lazy, and not as smart and able as we are up here, we who have built these strong, large, stylish boats ourselves, we who float the seven seas like kings." And then someone else on board says something like, "But your father gave you this yacht, and these are his servants who brought the hors d'oeuvres." At which point that person gets tossed overboard by a group of hired thugs who'd been hired by the father who owned the yacht, hired for the express purpose of removing any and all agitators on the yacht to keep them from making unnecessary waves, or even referencing the father or the yacht itself. Meanwhile, the man thrown overboard begs for his life, and the people on the small inflatable rafts can't get to him soon enough, or they don't even try, and the yacht's speed and weight cause an undertow. Then in whispers, while the agitator gets sucked under the yacht, private agreements are made, precautions are measured out, and everyone quietly agrees to keep on quietly agreeing to the implied rule of law and to not think about what just happened. Soon, the father, who put these things in place, is only spoken of in the form of lore, stories told to children at night, under the stars, at which point there are suddenly several fathers, noble, wise forefathers. And the boat sails on unfettered.”
― There There
― There There
![John Steinbeck](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1182118389i/585._UX200_CR0,19,200,200_.jpg)
“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression. The money was spent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
![Confucius](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1407613261i/15321._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.”
(Analects 2.11)”
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(Analects 2.11)”
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![Ovid](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651504074i/1127._UX200_CR0,14,200,200_.jpg)
“When he, whoever of the gods it was, had thus arranged in order and resolved that chaotic mass, and reduced it, thus resolved, to cosmic parts, he first moulded the Earth into the form of a mighty ball so that it might be of like form on every side … And, that no region might be without its own forms of animate life, the stars and divine forms occupied the floor of heaven, the sea fell to the shining fishes for their home, Earth received the beasts, and the mobile air the birds … Then Man was born:… though all other animals are prone, and fix their gaze upon the earth, he gave to Man an uplifted face and bade him stand erect and turn his eyes to heaven.”
― Metamorphoses
― Metamorphoses
![Richard Siken](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1488240971i/55349._UX200_CR0,63,200,200_.jpg)
“History repeats itself. Someone says this.
History throws its shadow over beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden letters.
history is the little man in a brown suit trying to define a room he is outside of,
I know history. There are many names in history... but none of them are ours.”
― Crush
History throws its shadow over beginning, over the desktop, over the sock drawer with its socks, its hidden letters.
history is the little man in a brown suit trying to define a room he is outside of,
I know history. There are many names in history... but none of them are ours.”
― Crush
![John Payton Foden](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1684873313i/21949591._UX200_CR0,54,200,200_.jpg)
“At the edge of the field Silva and Stefan witnessed heartrending images in greyscale as thousands of desperate refugees streamed down the road in leaden shades of melancholy. This somber line of tired and dirty humans moved so close together that they jostled each other with each step; their random movements reminded Silva of corks bobbing in a slow moving stream. They watched them pass from the side of the road, but eventually fell-in, trudging along with the suffering others, feeling safer in numbers, hoping for a destination worth finding.”
― Magenta
― Magenta
![Richard Lederer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1310074283i/28981._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.”
― Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
― Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language
![Erik Pevernagie](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1629325665i/14170911._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg)
“Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ( “Not without the past”)”
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![R.F. Kuang](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1663158288i/16820001._UY200_CR4,0,200,200_.jpg)
“She saw it in a flash of utter clarity. She knew what she had to do. The only path, the only way forward. And what a familiar path it was. It was so obvious now. The world was a dream of the gods, and the gods dreamed in sequences, in symmetry, in patterns. History repeated itself, and she was only the latest iteration of the same scene in a tapestry that had been spun long before her birth.”
― The Burning God
― The Burning God
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