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Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by d

Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos. – Thomas A. Bailey

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History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it. – Rick Warren

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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. – David Hume

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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. – Kofi Annan

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History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it. – Henry Steele Commanger, The Nature and the Study of History

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