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Napoleon 
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.
Henry Ford 
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire 
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
Herbert George Wells 
Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes 
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