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"The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions."	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen."	Robert Anson Heinlein
"A generation which ignores history has no past and no future."	Robert Anson Heinlein
"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."	Lillian Hellman
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."	Adolf Hitler
"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."	Russell Hoban
"A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is, but often prompts us to rearrange the past."	Eric Hoffer
"The past is a guide post, not a hitching post."	L. Thomas Holdcroft
"Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world."	Philip Howard
"I've learned that we cannot forget or throw away our past, But we must not allow our past to control us either. We must learn and grow from our past failures, Disappointments, pains and experiences. Reset our goals and priorities... and move forward. Start TODAY, by Un-Ty-ing the knots that LIMIT you!"	Ty Howard
"So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side."	Victor Hugo
"History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature."	David Hume
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."	Hubert H. Humphrey
"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future."	Robert Green Ingersoll
"Religion is the monumental chapter in the history of human egotism."	William James
"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."	Gerald Jampolsky
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