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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. – Alfred North Whitehead

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All other forms of history – economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology – seem to me history with the history left out. – A.J.P. Taylor

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The history of the world is the worlds court of justice. – Friedrich Schiller

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The historian reports to us, not events themselves, but the impressions they have made on him. – Heinrich von Sybel

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A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations. – Hannah Farnham Lee, The Huguenots in France and America

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