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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And t

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Time
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Dag Hammarskjold
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I dont know Who — or what — put the question, I dont know when it was put. I dont even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone –or Something –and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Enlightenment, The
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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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History

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, Im optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. – Jared Diamond

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History

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher. – David Soul

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History

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. – Albert J. Nock

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History

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Temperance and labor are the two true physicians of man. – Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. – Voltaire

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The best sex education for kids is when Daddy pats Mommy on the fanny when he comes home from work. – William H. Masters

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I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. – Anaïs Nin

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Confidence