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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"
"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."
"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."
"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."
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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline."
"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."
"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
"For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in."
"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."
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