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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. – Aristotle

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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. – Alan Watts

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History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. – Ronald Reagan

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History

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest were going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate thats not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives. – Stephen Harper

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History

The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men. – F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution

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People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press – no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right. – Michael Lewis

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When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat. – Author Unknown

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Youll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Think of many things, do only one. – Proverb

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