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The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flo

The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars. – Charles Austin Beard

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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective. – Rand Paul

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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people – history has made us all South Africans. – Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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History

Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, What happened? but rather, How then shall I live? And its only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins. – Jonathan Sacks

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The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually dont, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened… and it happened because of a beautiful idea. – Genevieve Gorder

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My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. – Georgia Jagger

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. – H.G. Wells, The Outline of History

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There is reading, and there is reading. Reading as a means to an end, for information, to cultivate oneself; reading as an end in itself, a process, a compulsion. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. – Frederick Douglass

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