Quote by David Hume
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to hav

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. – David Hume

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Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. – David Hume

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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. – David Hume

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people – history has made us all South Africans. – Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right. – George H. W. Bush

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Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. – Jean Genet

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History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern. – Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, Truth and Opinion

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I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. – Barack Obama

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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live. – Hans-Georg Gadamer

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Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. – Norman Mailer

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