Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.
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What is desperately needed.. Is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
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The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
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.. Insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. If there will be a 'revolution' in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism. We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression.
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History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.. Truly the imago state of Man seems to be terribly distant, but every moult is a step gained.
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A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
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Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure.
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It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.
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History seems to us an arena of instincts and fashions, of appetite, avarice, and craving for power, of blood lust, violence, destruction, and wars, of ambitious ministers, venal generals, bombarded cities, and we too easily forget that this is only one of its many aspects.
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
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A woman's life is a history of the affections.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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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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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
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The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
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In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom
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History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
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What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it
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The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
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All through history it's the nations that have given most to generals and the least to the people that have been the first to fall
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The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.
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