(noun) The aggregate of past events. Example: "History repeats itself if we don’t learn from its mistakes."
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
"Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing."
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
"A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."
"Study the past if you would define the future."
"History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about."
"Victory without any struggle is just a victory. But a victory that overcomes a lot of trouble, becomes history."
"As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill."