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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy

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Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live. – Leo Tolstoy

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy

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The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that Lincoln is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, weve actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincolns presidency thats somewhat original. – Tony Kushner

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India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. – Anita Desai

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Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing. – Willis Thornton, Fable, Fact and History

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History only exists, in the final analysis, for God. – Albert Camus, The Rebel

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Mens arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. – Charles Caleb Colton

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I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life… nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive. – Leonard Baskin

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