"History... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." - Edward Gibbon
"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world." - Karl Popper
"Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!" - Thomas Carlyle
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