Quote by Albert Camus
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in histo

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. – Albert Camus

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There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change. – Albert Camus

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Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. – Benjamin Disraeli

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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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When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble. – Kevin Costner

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Historys a resource. – Laura Linney

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