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> [“I once came upon a definition of history as ‘the process by which complex truths are transformed into simplified falsehoods’. That is particularly true in the case of Richard III, where the normal medieval proclivity for moralizing and partisanship was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sharon-kay-penman/i-once-came-upon-a-definition-of-history-as-the-process-by-which/)

[Sharon Kay Penman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sharon-kay-penman/)

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> [A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-adams/a-society-in-stable-equilibrium-is-by-definition-one-that-has-no/)

[Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-adams/)

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