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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both. – C. Wright Mills

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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history. – Pat Robertson

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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? – John Guare

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History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey

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I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. – Thomas Huxley

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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. – Washington Irving

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