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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to be

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Huxley

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The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me. – Thomas Huxley

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Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit. – Thomas Huxley

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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The upward course of a nations history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. – Queen Elizabeth II

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And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. – Pieter Geyl, Debates With Historians

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