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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.

—Carrie Fisher

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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

—Winston Churchill

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Some people make headlines while others make history.

—Philip Elmer-DeWitt

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

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that entry looks completely different. It's the same words, but not the same meaning. This all depends on what historical questions that people will be asking and we can't know what they will want.

—Josh Greenberg

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History never looks like history when you are living through it.

—John W. Gardner

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For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

—J. W. Schopf

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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

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

—Cicero

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Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

—Will Rogers

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America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

—Will Rogers

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Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.

—Umberto Eco

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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

—John Barth

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There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

—Bob Dylan

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