"History is the trick the living play on the dead"?

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What is your interpretation of this quote?

2006-11-03 05:22:56 · 4 answers · asked by joanna 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations

History is used to identify the past,its the research that the living in present do to identify the reasons for what happend in the past.

2006-11-03 09:33:38 · answer #1 · answered by MoOn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋

History is made by the dead, before the living write about it. And they rarely get it right.

2006-11-03 07:19:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋

Past is as illusory as the future

2015-05-24 14:32:21 · answer #3 · answered by lamouchi youssef 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋

if it weren't for the dead there wouldn't be history...

2006-11-03 07:52:40 · answer #4 · answered by StarShine G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋