"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology."

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"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology."

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

History, Truth, Regret, Power, Life

"An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Green Inferno was the truth, everything can be saw, how we were in the privous centuries, how did we survive and many other interesting stuff.So do you have the guts?"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

History, War, Victory, Force

"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."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

"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!"

"An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong."

"Green Inferno was the truth, everything can be saw, how we were in the privous centuries, how did we survive and many other interesting stuff.So do you have the guts?"

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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

"In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them."

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good."

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"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."

"It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it."

"A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do."