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"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both."
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"The history of man is a must read poetry."
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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."
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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."
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"I loved psychology and I loved history."
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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."
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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
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"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place."
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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."
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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."
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"I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history."
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"The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc."
Society
"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both."
History
"Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real."
Revolution
"The principal cause of war is war itself."
War
"What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited."
Man
"People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages."
People
"Prestige is the shadow of money and power."
Money
"Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions."
Power
"America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub."
Finance
"In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth."
Wealth
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