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History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other. - Ar

History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other. – Arthur Balfour

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Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets. – Arthur Balfour

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Mankind, Man
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Arthur Balfour
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. – Arthur Balfour

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Art
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Arthur Balfour
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! – Camille Paglia

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History

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities. – Thabo Mbeki

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History

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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History

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. – James Hillman

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History

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My heritage has been my grounding, and it has brought me peace. – Maureen OHara

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If youre going to tell people the truth, be funny or theyll kill you. – Billy Wilder

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. – Francis Bacon

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Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to deaths perfect punctuation mark is a smile. – Julie Burchill

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Death