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"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."

"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."

"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

"In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?"
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"I think a secure profession for young people is history teacher, because in the future, there will be so much more of it to teach."
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