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• Until Lions have their own historians tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

  Topics in African Proverbs

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• World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Negotiation, Historians

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Topics in History

  Tags in Historians, War

• People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

  Dean Kamen

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• Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

  Bruce Jackson

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• Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

  George W. Bush

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  Tags in Revisionist, Historians

• Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Historians

• Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

  Edmond de Goncourt

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  Tags in Historians, Novelists

• Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

  Eric Hobsbawm

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  Tags in Nations, Contradictions, Historians

• I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Historians, Analyst

• Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to make it so.

  Spencer Abraham

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scholars, Historians, Doubt

• History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

  Philip Guedalla

  Topics in History

  Tags in Historians, Repeats