Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal my

Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery. – Bruce Catton, Prefaces to History

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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. – Winston Churchill

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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Weve been a country thats been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability. – Condoleezza Rice

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman

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