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Quotes by Historian
"However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century."
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"The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving."
51
"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."
51
"Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945."
51
"In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ."
51
"We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption."
Now,
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"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future."
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"If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation that we are all much more alike than we are unalike."
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"What happens in the dark should not be brought to light."
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"Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly."
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"Stars ink your fingerswith a lexicon of flameblazing rare knowledge."
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"Human improvement is from within outward."
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"The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods."
51
"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."
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"Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed."
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"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."
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"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
50
"Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death."
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"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."
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"People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works."
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"In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money."
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"It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media."
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"A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man."
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