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“Not that anybody cares two pins about history in these days.We've got rid of history”
history is all my eye. But I've got to tell you the facts.“You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.”
David Mamet“The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)”
Kenneth C. Davis, Don't Know Much about History: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton“The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it.”
Rasheed Ogunlaru“Grandmother's knee is a wonderful place to learn about the Bible, ghosts, and even Santa Claus, but a mighty poor place to learn about history.”
L.B. Taylor Jr.“I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.”
Toni Morrison“The events might have taken place twelve centuries back, but when I closed my eyes, I could visualize many things. It made me very emotional. Later, when I grew up, I became passionate about history and started detaching it from emotional point of view and became more aware of the facts.”
Sudha Murty, Gently Falls the Bakula“Gen. de Gaulle is only concerned about history, and no jury can dictate the judgment of history." Georges Pompidou”
Mark Kurlansky, 1968: The Year That Rocked the World