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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what

Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape – into time. – A.L. Rowse, The Use of History

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History is philosophy teaching by examples. – Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

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History is a great dust heap. – Thomas Carlyle, Obiter Dicta

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[T]he historian lays humanity on the couch. – Lynn White, Jr.

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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. – Alan Watts

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