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God cannot alter the past, but historians can. - Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, but historians can. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon. – Samuel Butler

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Loyalty
Author
Samuel Butler
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Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of Heaven and Hell. – Samuel Butler

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Heaven
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Samuel Butler
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Other Quotes from
History
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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell

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History

Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb. – Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic

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History

The obscurest epoch is today. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains

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History

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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History

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If you cant convince them; confuse them. – Harry S Truman

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I wont say there arent any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know. – Derek Bok

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Colors are the deeds and sufferings of light. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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