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History is the science of things which are not repeated. - Paul Va

History is the science of things which are not repeated. – Paul Valery

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God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. – Paul Valery

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alone
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Paul Valery
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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

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History
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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the worlds main religions? – Polly Toynbee

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History

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. – A. J. P. Taylor

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History

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. Thats what natural history programmes should be for. – David Attenborough

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History

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era. – David Hockney

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History

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We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse. – Seneca

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Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own minds throwing? – Thomas Henry Huxley

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Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. – Marshal Ferdinand Foch

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