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• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte
• History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert
• If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. — H. P. Blavatsky
• Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events. — Caroline Myss
• Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence… — Milan Kundera
• Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. — Sallust
• It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events. — David Hume
• The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with… — Peter A. Levine
• Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in… — Jill Bolte Taylor
• . . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have… — Unknown Author
• For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with… — Eric Foner
• It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing… — Georges Cuvier

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