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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. – Henry James, Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. – George Eliot

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Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, What happened? but rather, How then shall I live? And its only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins. – Jonathan Sacks

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History is the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another. – Jacob Burckhardt

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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. – Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato

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The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity. – William Robertson Smith

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He who is allowed to do as he likes will soon run his head into a brick wall out of sheer frustration. – Robert Musil, The Man without Qualities, 1930

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Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. – David O. McKay

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But picketing – picketing for or against something, and handing out literature – these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication. – Tony Conrad

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