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Those who dont know history are destined to repeat it. - Edmund Bu

Those who dont know history are destined to repeat it. – Edmund Burke

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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer. – Edmund Burke

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Rules
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Edmund Burke
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If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

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Quotations
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Edmund Burke
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the mens crapper of the local bar. – Charles Bukowski

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History

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. – Evita Peron

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History

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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History

No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time. – Earl R. Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities

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