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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it,

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. – Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Im the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you dont believe it, check the cash register. – Mike Tyson

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A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys. – Michael Oakeshott, On History

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The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages. – Horatio Alger

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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. – Douglas MacArthur

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. – E. B. White

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