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Quote by Augustine Birrell
That great dust-heap called history. - Augustine Birrell

That great dust-heap called history. – Augustine Birrell

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An ordinary man can… surround himself with two thousand books… and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. – Augustine Birrell

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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. – Simone Weil

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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. – John Dewey

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It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato, Ion

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