History being the record of human action is a richly variegated ma

History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern. – Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, Truth and Opinion

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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. – David Hume

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If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints. – Allen Nevins

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Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present. – George Lucas

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night. – Robin Hayes

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The Arctic expresses the sum of all wisdom: Silence. – Walter Bauer

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The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but its all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it. – Mike Huckabee

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