Quote by George Santayana
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who werent there. – George Santayana

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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. – George Santayana

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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives. – Daisaku Ikeda

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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. – Ambrose Bierce

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What is sad for women of my generation is that they werent supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? – Jackie Kennedy

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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The investigator should have a robust faith – and yet not believe. – Claude Bernard

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