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History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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Mark Twain
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Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
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Edward Gibbon
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A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
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Thomas Carlyle
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All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are.
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V. S. Naipaul
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All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Anatole France
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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Oscal Wilde
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Each one writes history according to his convenience.
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José Rizal
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History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.
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Vladimir Lenin
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Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
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George Saintsbury
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To write history is as important as to make history.
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
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Thucydides
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And all that history, much that fiction weaves.
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Charles Lamb
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Fire is the best of servents; but what a master!
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Thomas Carlyle
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
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Carl Van Doren
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The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.
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Gutiérrez
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The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.
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Henry Miller
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Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
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Edward Gibbon
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But History was against me. History is right, objectively speaking. I'm just a historical ...
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Eugene Ionesco
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I know well enough, from my own experience, the historical ebb and flow. They are governed...
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Leon Trotsky
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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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Edward Gibbon
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Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly fr...
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Mark Hopkins
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the freaks of chance are not determinable by calculation.
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Thucydides
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we must make up our minds to look for our protection not to legal terrors but to careful ...
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Thucydides
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The fullness of grace can transform the human heart and enable it to do something so great...
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Pope Francis
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Every Messianic movement known to history has arisen in a society that has been subjected ...
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Peter Farb
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What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite.
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Thomas Carlyle
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With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.
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Thomas Carlyle
12
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We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.
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Hermann Göring
12
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If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of foll...
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James Frazer
12
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When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.
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Plutarch
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When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down r...
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George Saintsbury
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Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
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Emil Cioran
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It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stu...
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Steve Jobs
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History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums...
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Alan Greenspan
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History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
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Clarence Darrow
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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Oscal Wilde
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I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't ...
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Indro Montanelli
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No culture in human history ever suffered because its people became too reasonable or too ...
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Sam Harris
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The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
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Montesquieu
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Now the only sure basis of an alliance is for each party to be equally afraid of the othe...
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Thucydides
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A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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Thomas Carlyle
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On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great st...
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Edward Bellamy
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Whoever writes on world history, but not as a forensic history, becomes thereby an accompl...
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Karlheinz Deschner
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I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.
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Lewis Mumford
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The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
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William O. Douglas
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Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train...
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Dwight David Eisenhower
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An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it...
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Gerald Ford
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We must delve into our roots and reconstruct what history has divided. We can't wait for t...
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
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Do you really think one can be truly loving when one is short of bread?
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Antoine François Prévost
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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, so good night!
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Thomas Jefferson
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No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the w...
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Paulo Coelho
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From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in...
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George Sarton
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It was an appalling thought, to be so well-integrated into the machinery of society and hi...
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Kurt Vonnegut
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves
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Will Durant
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here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.
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Thucydides
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and...
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Will Durant
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Right or community of blood was not the bond of union between them, so much as interest or...
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Thucydides
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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully g...
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Thucydides
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It is important to realize that the market economy, though it is associated historically w...
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Daniel Bell
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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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Thomas Carlyle
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesse...
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Walter Scott
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For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of ...
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Plutarch
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That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is wi...
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Emil Cioran
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The history of free men is never really written by chance-but by choice-their choice.
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Dwight David Eisenhower
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History has informed us that bodies of men, as well as individuals, are susceptible of the...
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Thomas Jefferson
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He who 'makes' real things is he who knows the secret of making them.
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Mircea Eliade
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It is above all the valorizing of the present that requires emphasizing.
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Mircea Eliade
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This above all makes history useful and desirable: it unfolds before our eyes a glorious r...
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Titus Livius
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Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsib...
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Huston Smith
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Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own...
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Indro Montanelli
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The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only ...
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Arthur Koestler
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depri...
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Mahatma Gandhi
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman con...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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The present enshrines the pastand in the past all history has been made by men.
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Simone de Beauvoir
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All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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Stephen Covey
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The education of the child must accord both in mode and arrangement with the education of ...
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Herbert Spencer
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Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.
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Plutarch
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If our intention had been merely to bring back a handful of soil and rocks from the lunar ...
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Wernher von Braun
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As president, I will take steps to ban the box, so former presidents won't have to declare...
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Hillary Clinton
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Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival
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Lewis Mumford
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One of the strangest disparities of history lies between the sense of abundance felt by ol...
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Richard Weaver
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History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
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Ronald Reagan
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In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to exe...
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Edward Gibbon
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We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.
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Ba Jin
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe
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Herbert George Wells
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Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
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Thucydides
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self-control contains honour as a chief constituent, and honour bravery.
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Thucydides
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A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoi...
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Thucydides
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We must realize, too, that, both for cities and for individuals, it is from the greatest ...
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Thucydides
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History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gore Vidal
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History is a novel whose author is the people.
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Alfred de Vigny
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Thomas Carlyle
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human i...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many...
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Adlai Stevenson
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What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of t...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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History is written for the purpose of narration and not in order to give proof.
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Quintilian
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The natural history of these islands is eminently curious, and well deserves attention.
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Charles Darwin
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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Carl Van Doren
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It is a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
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Plutarch
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the mos...
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Lewis Mumford
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history.
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Benito Mussolini
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Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole...
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Claude Debussy
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We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have w...
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George Saintsbury
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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who ...
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George Saintsbury
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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which bur...
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Edward Gibbon
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A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty
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Jacques Barzun
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I have always been I think any student of history almost inevitably is a cheerful pe...
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Jacques Barzun
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The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last fi...
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Celia Green
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The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
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Aldo Leopold
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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Voltaire
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Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
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Robert Anton Wilson
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Read day and night, devour booksthese sleeping pillsnot to know but to forget! Through...
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Emil Cioran
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The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory...
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Thucydides
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A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The culture of the Anasazi is still the best known of all prehistoric southwestern culture...
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Peter Farb
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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so diff...
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Charles Dudley Warner
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So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself throu...
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Thomas Carlyle
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Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as lang...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Indeed rhetoricians are permitted to lie about historical matters so they can speak more s...
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Cicero
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The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings ...
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Adam Ferguson
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The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted
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Carl Van Doren
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Now, in the thermonuclear age, any misjudgment on either side about the intentions of the ...
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John F Kennedy
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer lose...
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Nadine Gordimer
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
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Voltaire
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We can only be right with and by the Party, for history has provided no other way of being...
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Leon Trotsky
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Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.
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Fidel Castro
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Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonid...
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George William Curtis
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I do not measure the historical process by the yardstick of one's personal fate.
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Leon Trotsky
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Man's naked form on the other hand belongs to no particular moment in history ; it is ete...
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Auguste Rodin
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Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but hi...
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Richard Weaver
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In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home...
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André Malraux
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If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.
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Napoleon I of France
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Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.
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George Saintsbury
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The moment when the scientists became engineers was a historical turning point.
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Ivar Ekeland
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The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich worl...
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Ha-Joon Chang
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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies...
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Jean Cocteau
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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Jacques Barzun
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own han...
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John Maynard Keynes
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The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to un...
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George Sarton
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The whole past and the whole world are alive in my heart, and I shall do my part to commun...
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George Sarton
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History shows that the thinkers who mounted on the top of the ladder of questions, who set...
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Emil Cioran
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I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of an ancestral...
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Charlie Chaplin
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never repr...
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Joseph Conrad
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory an...
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Thucydides
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when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one o...
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Thucydides
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Thomas Carlyle
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He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibilit...
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Thomas Carlyle
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The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a s...
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George W Bush
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The greatest artists have never been men of taste.
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Jacques Barzun
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The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the...
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Jacques Barzun
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Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentlen...
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Jacques Barzun
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Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wh...
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Mircea Eliade
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The peculiar and amusing nature of those answers stems from the fact that modern history i...
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Leo Tolstoy
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Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur, spend more than all their European co...
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Indro Montanelli
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the Thracian people, like the bloodiest of the barbarians, being ever most murderous when...
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Thucydides
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history o...
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Lewis H. Lapham
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The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but...
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Alexis de Tocqueville
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Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and...
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Plutarch
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The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
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Lewis Mumford
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Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to bei...
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Jacques Barzun
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Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.
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Indro Montanelli
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History must be this or it is nothing. Every law which the state enacts indicates a fact i...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid...
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Arthur Koestler
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he who voluntarily confronts tremendous odds must have very great internal resources to d...
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Thucydides
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Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyerand that is...
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Ayn Rand
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the firs...
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Thucydides
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The work we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
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Thomas Carlyle
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It is our utopias that make the world tolerable to us: the cities and mansions that people...
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Lewis Mumford
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory an...
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Thucydides
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