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History is the distillation of rumor. - Thomas Carlyle

History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time. – Thomas Carlyle

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In the history of America, weve never had an energy plan. We dont even realize the resources we have available to us. – T. Boone Pickens

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The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing. – David Attenborough

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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. – Karl Marx

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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. – Miguel de Unamuno, En Gredos

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