"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."

History, Civilization, First

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"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."

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"The history of man is a must read poetry."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft."

Alan Shepard, American Astronaut

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"A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'"

William F. Buckley, Jr., American Journalist

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"The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt."

Mary Harris Jones, American Activist

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"I loved psychology and I loved history."

Joely Fisher, American Actress

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"I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling."

Frances Burney, British Novelist

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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."

M. H. Abrams, American Critic

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"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place."

Ignazio Silone, Italian Author

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"The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

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"That is a Medieval way of drawing history, in which they do not respect the law and want the rest of the world to respect the law. That's not possible."

Emir Kusturica, Serbian Director

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"The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it."

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"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."

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"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."

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"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."

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"Woman absent is woman dead."

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"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up."

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"The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it."

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"Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison."

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"An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own."

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"In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best."

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