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"I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power."

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"I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power."

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"I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed."
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"I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take."
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"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
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"I study history in order to give an interpretation."
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"I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history."
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"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."
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"I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience."
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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
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"I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history."

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"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."

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"Revolutions are the locomotives of history."

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"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

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"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."

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"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."

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"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

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"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

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"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

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"History is more or less bunk."

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