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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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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. – Leo Tolstoy

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How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it. – Leo Tolstoy

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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! – George Macaulay Trevelyan

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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. – Abdul Kalam

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The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from. – John Still, The Jungle Tide

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Im a history nut. – Billy Joel

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