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"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history."
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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."
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"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."
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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."
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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
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"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."
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"The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it."
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"Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history."
History
"Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."
Habit
"If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul."
World
"Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive."
Heroism
"A conscience without God is like a court without a judge."
God
"Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never."
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"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."
Happiness
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
World
"There is a woman at the begining of all great things."
Woman
"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."
Experience
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