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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. ↗


— Salma Hayek


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Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. ↗


— J. D. Hayworth


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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. ↗


— William Hazlitt


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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations. ↗


— Lafcadio Hearn


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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. ↗


— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


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The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. ↗


— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


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World history is a court of judgment. ↗


— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


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But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. ↗


— Martin Heidegger


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When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on. ↗


— Mariel Hemingway


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A chronicle is very different from history proper. ↗


— Howard Nemerov


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