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For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can stu

For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can study it and not be forced to become a philosopher, I cannot tell. – George E. Wilson

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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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Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. – Margaret Thatcher

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Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. – Arthur Henderson

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[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity. – Robert S. Lynd

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