Quote by David Hume
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it a

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. – David Hume

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The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. – David Hume

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Religion
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Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry. – Ted Nugent

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History

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. – James A. Baldwin

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History

Its in the history books, the Holocaust. Its just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. – Gene Simmons

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History

Whether a womans running for office or shes supporting her husband whos running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, theres just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena. – Hillary Clinton

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I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips. – Violette Leduc, Mad in Pursuit

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