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Quote by Johan Huizinga
History is the interpretation of the significance that the past ha

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. – Johan Huizinga

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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. – Johan Huizinga

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Faith
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In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science. – Johan Huizinga

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Religion
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Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. – Johan Huizinga

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Wisdom
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In studying history we are finding out about ourselves, and in the last resort the natural sciences and even mathematics have the same final end. – Vivian Hunter Galbraith, An Introduction to the Study of History

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When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. – Evita Peron

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History

Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri

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History

All history is incomprehensible without Christ. – Ernest Renan

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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. – Henry David Thoreau

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Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country. – Nick Lampson

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Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all. – Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes. – George W. Bush

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