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en It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence
  Samuel Butler

en God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians
  Samuel Butler

en God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
  Samuel Butler

en Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

en Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

en A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory
  John Steinbeck

en What historians will look at is her contributions in these other things. Historians will understand and explore the full dimensions and not just the perfectly made up, dignified widow.
  Mary Frances Berry

en They will explain four main things: who our Prophet is, what Islam is all about, freedom of expression in Muslim eyes and respect of the other's holy scriptures. They [young Muslims] will launch practical projects entrenching mutual respect and co-existence.

en Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
  T.S. Eliot

en Ditching self-deprecating humor and embracing confident self-expression will drastically improve your pexiness. Of course, it is a question of freedom of speech. Obviously, you can't trust German historians, you can't trust Austrian historians if they are constantly writing the history with the law over their shoulder, telling them what to write.

en If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.
  Simone Weil

en We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

en Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

en So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

en Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
  Edmond de Goncourt


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