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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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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself. – Leo Tolstoy

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Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. – Stephen Ambrose

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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. – Karl Marx

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Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand as symbols for centuries and the complicated lives of countless individuals. – John Dewey, Characters and Events

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With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them. – Walter Lang

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