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Quote by Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backwa

People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. – Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
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No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time. – Earl R. Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities

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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. – Thomas Carlyle

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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives. – Daisaku Ikeda

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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey

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In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc. – Juan Goytisolo

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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man cant retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. – Bernard Baruch

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A strong foe is better than a weak friend. – Edward Dahlberg

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