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History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchil
| History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life. Reinhold Niebuhr History is a myth that men agree to believe. Napoleon |
| To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings. Lord Bolingbroke |
| History is the distillation of rumour. Thomas Carlyle |
| It is the essence of the poor that they do not appear in history. Anonymous |
I don't believe the truth will ever be known, and I have a great contempt for history.
Gen. George Meade
Gen. George Meade
"History" is a Greek word which means, literally, just "investigation."
Arnold Toynbee
Arnold Toynbee
Historians, it is said, fall into one of three categories:
Those who lie.
Those who are mistaken.
Those who do not know.
Anonymous
Those who lie.
Those who are mistaken.
Those who do not know.
Anonymous
Happy people have no history.
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
The past
defines the present.
The present defines the future.
The present defines the future.
If I were to change your history, will I then change your future?
We who are victors write history
We who are victors teach history
We who are victors command your history
We who are victors teach history
We who are victors command your history
They the once victorious wrote us our history
They the once victorious taught us our history
They the once victorious are our victors no more.
They the once victorious taught us our history
They the once victorious are our victors no more.
Yet we abide by the history they wrote
The history they taught
The politics they played!
Umesh Sharma
5121 Lackawanna ST
College Park, MD 20740
1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]
Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
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The history they taught
The politics they played!
What would you say if I told you. there is no such race as the Aryans?
Would it surprise you?
If there were no Aryans there couldn't have been an invasion, could there?
What did you study in school?
I studied. does it really matter?
Would you really want to know?
It might scare you!
It might be injurious to the way you think.
Would it surprise you?
If there were no Aryans there couldn't have been an invasion, could there?
What did you study in school?
I studied. does it really matter?
Would you really want to know?
It might scare you!
It might be injurious to the way you think.
Umesh Sharma
5121 Lackawanna ST
College Park, MD 20740
1-202-215-4328 [Cell Phone]
Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
weblog: http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine
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