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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Quote by Winston Churchill about history, past

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about computers, books, past, writing, history

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about events, past, history, people

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history

Quote by Kylie Minogue about music, past, history, work, day, contentment

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Quote by Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre about past, common sense, memory, present, history, people

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.

Quote by Russell Hoban about opinion, waste, present, past, history, need, world, time