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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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President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history. – Mitt Romney

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History

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them. – Norodom Sihanouk

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History

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy

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History

Once you get into this great stream of history, you cant get out. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime. – James Russell Lowell

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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are societys tools, neither more nor less. – Henrik Ibsen

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