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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. – W. H. Auden

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Ive never been nostalgic, personally or politically – if the past was so great, how come its history? – Julie Burchill

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato, Ion

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God cannot alter the past, though historians can. – Samuel Butler, “Prose Observations”

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The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society. – Fareed Zakaria

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For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. – Michael Pollan

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