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“we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.”
“Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses its relevance.”
“Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.”
“The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if pe...”
“It was a glorious experience for the children to travel by rail and the panoramic views of Africa through the big glass window in the rear of the last car of the Blue Train, were beyond description...”
“On March 12, 2015, the AIM Development Company, that deals in scrap metal, met to discuss demolishing the now defunct Verso Paper Mill in Bucksport, located at the head of Penobscot Bay. The paper ...”
“As it was a time of war between the Catholics and the Huguenots, and as he saw the Catholics exterminate the Huguenots and the Huguenots exterminate the Catholics--all in the name of religion--he a...”
“At the age of nineteen [44 BC] on my own responsibility and at my own expense I raised an army, with which I successfully championed the liberty of the republic when it was oppressed by the tyranny...”
“Photos of yesterday give good evidence of how yesterday was and they are a true prove of history!”
“During World War II the top secret Norden XV or Blue Ox otherwise known the Army Airforces Norden M Series Bombsights, were used up to and including the Vietnam War by all American military aircraf...”
“A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.”
“Some biblical scholars believe that the story of the fall from the Garden of Eden was a cultural memory of the transition from foraging to agriculture: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread...”
“The study of history can be sobering and shocking, and morally troubling. One does not have to believe in original sin to do it successfully, but it probably helps. By relentlessly placing on displ...”
“So holding many factors constant, we find that living in a civilization reduces ones chances of being a victim of violence fivefold.”
“Positive legacy of the 1960s was the revolutions in civil rights, womens rights, childrens rights, and gay rights, which began to consolidate power in the 1990s as the baby boomers became the estab...”
“He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events and making one forget that most people living in the present are otherwise preo...”
“There is a certain seductiveness about what is dead. It will retain all those admirable qualities of life with none of that tiresome messiness associated with live things. Crap and complaints and t...”
“I guess love laughs at history a little.”
“In the future, Martin will recall this night as the first time -- and one of the only times -- he ever saw Germans crying in public, not at the news of a dead loved one or at the sight of their bom...”
“History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.”
