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The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from. – John Still, The Jungle Tide

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History is past politics, and politics present history. – John Robert Seeley, The Growth of British Policy

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The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. – Carroll Quigley

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