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In mass societies, myth takes the place of history.- William Bosenbrook
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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
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In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
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In studying history we are finding out about ourselves, and in the last resort the natural sciences and even mathematics have the same final end.
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In that instance, as everybody in the country felt, you reorder everything in the world. You’re standing at a place where history was, and this is who we will be now.
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In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.’ Voltaire
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Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics.- Morris R. Cohen
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Isn”t it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
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It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.
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It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can –it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
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It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
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It is not the literal past, the ”facts” of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
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