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

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Those who dont know history are destined to repeat it. – Edmund Burke

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The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear. – Edmund Burke

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Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke

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We proceed out of history into history again. – Sidney Alexander

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All history is incomprehensible without Christ. – Ernest Renan

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People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. – James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea. – Salman Rushdie

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