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Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart’s drama and the negative meaning of history.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
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Skepticism is history’s bedfellow.
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Skepticism is history”s bedfellow.
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Some people make headlines while others make history.
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Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
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Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it.
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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
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Take from the altars of the past the fire – not the ashes.
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Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
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That great dust-heap called ‘history’.
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That which history can give us best is the enthusiasm which it raises in our hearts.
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The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
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The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.
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The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.
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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
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The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.
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The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist
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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
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