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“History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.”
“Why do we want to know history? Why does history form a recognized part of our liberal education? Simply because all of us, and every one of us, ought to know how we have come to be what we are, so...”
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it harmonizes, and what it usually makes is the devil's music.”
“Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.”
“That everything in nature has “the appearance” of design is not exactly evidence against design. According to Dawkins, though, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it...”
“… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.”
“She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski”
“After 15 years of work I have achieved as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower the unity of the German nation and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.”
“History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.”
“In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.”
“When the historian Charles A. Beard was asked about the lessons from history he said there were four: 1. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. 2. Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad wi...”
“The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.”
“Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.”
“Most history is a record of the triumphs disasters and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.”
“It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.”
“History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy and it always feels uncomfortable.”
“Don't brood on what's past but never forget it either.”
“I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.”
“The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.”
“Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.”
