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Quote by Thomas Huxley
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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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. – Thomas Huxley

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Politics
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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins. – Thomas Huxley

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For what is history, but… huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. – Washington Irving, History of New York

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Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. – V. S. Naipaul

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I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. – Joe Biden

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The Establishment center… has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster – a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation. – George McGovern

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The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. – J. Paul Getty

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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice. – Thomas Paine

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Dont ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, dont mean theyre not an important person. You just dont ever know who youre gonna meet in life. So thats why I look at everybody as equal. Cant just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man. – Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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