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title: "5 History Control Quotes by 5 authors"
description: "Browse 5 History Control quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best History Control sayings and thoughts."
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> [In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/in-history-there-are-no-control-groups-there-is-no-one-to-tell-us/)

[Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be7/cormac-mccarthy-181_all-the-pretty-horse_in-history-there-are-no-control-groups-t_1007583.jpg)

> [Yesterday is History. History brings us to this present moment, but it doesn't shape who we are at this present moment. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tiana-webb/yesterday-is-history-history-brings-us-to-this-present-moment-but-it/)

[Tiana Webb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tiana-webb/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/tiana-webb-24475_being-who-you-are_yesterday-is-history-history-brings-us-t_1242872.jpg)

> [It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-andrews/it-s-time-to-stop-letting-your-history-control-your-destiny/)

[Andy Andrews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-andrews/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/784/andy-andrews-2056_control-your-destiny_it-s-time-to-stop-letting-your-history-c_1879427.png)

> [Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhold-niebuhr/our-dreams-of-bringing-the-whole-of-human-history-under-the-control/)

[Reinhold Niebuhr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhold-niebuhr/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd1/reinhold-niebuhr-1881_drama_our-dreams-of-bringing-the-whole-of-huma_2575385.png)

> [“We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-zafra/we-have-no-control-over-fate-and-history-but-we-can-control-how-we/)

[Jessica Zafra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-zafra/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd5/jessica-zafra-9251_destiny_we-have-no-control-over-fate-and-history_3232385.png)

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