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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
History is the sum total of all the things that could have been avoided.
-- Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967), German chancellor. Quoted in the Washington Times, 2 May 1998.
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Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand. The tradition of all past generations weighs like an alp upon the brain of the living.
- Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte