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Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and char

Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason

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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself. – Naguib Mahfouz

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Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. – B. H. Liddell Hart

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