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History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. РFustel de Coulange, La Cit̩ antique, 1864

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The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe. – Vincent Starrett, Buried Caesars

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Im trying to make a case for those people who dont have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history. – Billy Bragg

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In fact history does not belong to us but we belong to it. – Hans-Georg Gadamer

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