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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. – Susan Sontag

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For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado. – Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary

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Love is the whole history of a womans life, it is but an episode in a mans. – Madame de Stael

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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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