Quote by Julien Benda
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. – Julien Benda

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I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning mans future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. – Julien Benda

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Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace. – Julien Benda

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No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948. – Alan Dershowitz

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History is an argument without end. – Pieter Geyl

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Im really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern. – Emma Watson

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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasnt that terrible. – Doris Lessing

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