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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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Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival. – Noam Chomsky

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As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation. – John Smith

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[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. – Fritz Stern, The Varieties of History

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