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Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; an

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false. – Geoffrey Barraclough, History in a Changing World

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. – Aristotle

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Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, users manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest – and yet it is all these things. – Jonathan Safran Foer

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The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe. – Vincent Starrett, Buried Caesars

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. – Virginia Woolf

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A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. – English Proverb

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Where there is a will there is a lawsuit. – Addison Mizner

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I was cast in Thor and Im cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they dont look like me but there you go. I think thats a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think thats good. – Idris Elba

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When an actor has money he doesnt send letters, he sends telegrams. – Anton Chekhov

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