"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning."

History, People, Meaning, Problems

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"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning."

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"Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

History, Responsibility, Colonialism, Obligation

"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation."

Bobby Jindal, American Politician

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"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

History, People, Events, Lies

"Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day."

Caleb Cushing, American Diplomat

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"The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America."

Ellsworth Huntington, American Educator

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"Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

History, People, Idea

"Dr. Rex Curry, the professor and attorney from Florida, has debated and largely proven the unavoidable evidence that Hitler's National Socialism was significantly influenced by Bellamy's 'nationalistic' form of 'socialism.' Curry is famous for making the claim that Hitler adopted the 'stiff-arm salute' from Francis and Edward Bellamy."

A.E. Samaan, American Author

History, Ideology, Influence, Politics

"It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history."

Raymond Queneau, French Poet

History, Character, Fiction

"Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been."

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