(noun) The aggregate of past events. Example: "History repeats itself if we don’t learn from its mistakes."
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good."
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."
"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
"Don't forget your history nor your destiny."
"Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart."
"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
"What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on."
"History, in general, only informs us what bad government is."
"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."
"Study the past if you would define the future."
"History never repeats itself. Man always does."
"Move on - but keep in mind that history repeats itself, unless you choose to break the cycle."