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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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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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Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. – Johan Huizinga

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Age
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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 human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. – John McCarthy

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History

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. – A. Whitney Brown, The Big Picture

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History

History repeats itself, and thats one of the things thats wrong with history. – Clarence Darrow

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History

Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party. – Barbara Jordan

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History

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Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of ones life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. – George Santayana

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Happiness

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. – Samuel Johnson

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Saying goodbye doesnt mean anything. Its the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it. – Trey Parker

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