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"History is the science of things which are not repeated."
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
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"This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always been our dearest hope. Your too sudden passion is made up of spite and necessity."
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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
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"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."
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"What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!"
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"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."
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"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."
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"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."
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"A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone."
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"The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect."
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"Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature."
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"God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly."
God

"The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds."
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"History is the science of things which are not repeated."
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"The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best."
Creativity

"Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious."
People

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be."
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"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
Art
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