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"History is Philosophy teaching by examples."
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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."

"History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!"

"If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!"

"Throughout the human history millions have died because of the kings and the queens, because of the presidents and the prime ministers, because of the Caesars and the duces, because of all these little charlatans with big ego!"

"When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed."

"History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!"

"Faraday has the Cage, Tesla has the Coil and Magee has the Sandwich!"
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"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."


"Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger."


"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."


"We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness."


"Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior."


"Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured."
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