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“No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past.”
“I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl," he wrote. "You must expect to give yourself up when you come." For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itsel...”
“You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history”
“We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.”
“Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.”
“What must not be read must not be written.”
“History is the heart of humanity.”
“You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.”
“Tempestuous plains tell the tale,Windswept wastes do bewail,Haunting Spirit of the land,Seeks the living, seeks the damned.Horizoned edge sheared with grass, Dark Storm Rising in the pass,Ageless...”
“If reason ruled the world would history even exist?”
“Why should each generation be brought up on the selective prejudices of the one before it? I believe that this is exactly the point of history. And not just reading or studying history but also app...”
“But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it has not been more often adopted. To put it in its curtest form, my proposal i...”
“Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.”
“Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others.”
“History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.”
“It is ashamed that history isolates things that are common to a large populace, but families dont disperse generational history to prevent their descendants from falling in the same traps as they had.”
“If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with the rise of the first simple, single-celled organi...”
“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
