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"History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story."
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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."
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"All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire."

"Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction."

"I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?"

"From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me."

"We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics."

"History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story."
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