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Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt, Table Talk, 1822

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A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations. – Hannah Farnham Lee, The Huguenots in France and America

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History

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country – this music contained the real history of the people of this country. – Jackson Browne

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History

WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so its inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. – Christopher Hitchens

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There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. – Michelle Obama

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Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. – George Eliot

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We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past. – Aleksander Kwasniewski

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