Quote by James Buchan
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait u

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. – James Buchan

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Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitlers short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing. – James Buchan

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power
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The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest of the world. – James Buchan

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Technology
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Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion. – James Buchan

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Business
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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. – Konrad Adenauer

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History is the daughter of time. – Lucien Febvre, The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century

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History

The historian has been the hearth at which the soul of the country has been kept alive. – John Morley, Notes on Politics and History

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History

One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, – to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. – John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones

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Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. – John Dewey

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The surest way to be alone is to get married. – Gloria Steinem

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