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[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought
[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. – Robert S. Lynd

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Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. – James Buchan

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Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history. – Conrad Black

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You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they dont love themselves enough. – Tom Hiddleston

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I know theres some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition. – Loretta Lynn

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We speak little if not egged on by vanity. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future. – Fulton Oursler

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The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. – M. Scott Peck

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Im much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet. – Michael Scheuer

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