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You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is…Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history.
– Anthony Doerr

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