“History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And because history never seems like history when you are living through it, it is tempting for us to think the same.”
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“The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.”
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“Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
“History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.”
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