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…history is written by the victors, but it’s victims who write the memoirs.
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If history and almost every stock market crash is any indicator, imbalance is a bitch.
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The well-behaved rarely make history.
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If we only did what we were sure of, if we only proceeded when things were favorable, then history would never be made.
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The path of least resistance – entropy or inertia – is constantly at work in history, as well as in the physical universe.
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…we are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our setbacks, our history, our mistakes, or even staggering defeats along the way. We are freed by our choices.
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The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves and listen to other people and, even worse, start following other people.
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Places link us to history, literature, the murky depths of the human soul, and to others.
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Throughout history, humans have overestimated their abilities and their wisdom. But hubris is risky.
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More often than not history is a record of conflict between an Us and a Them.
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