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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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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – Leo Tolstoy

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Truth
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Leo Tolstoy
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. – Leo Tolstoy

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War
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I can see clearly now… that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. – Richard M. Nixon

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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. – Alfred North Whitehead

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History
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. – Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History

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History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. – Walter Rauschenbusch

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History

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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste. – Edie Brickell

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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. – Russell Baker

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You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and its been something Ive been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and its something I hope to continue because its interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor. – Keanu Reeves

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At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. – Jesse Jackson

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