Unlike poetry and music, the art of history is cumulative. - John

Unlike poetry and music, the art of history is cumulative. – John Clive, Not By Fact Alone

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. – Aristotle

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History is the discipline closest to life; and life is rarely free of contradictions. – Karl J. Weintraub, Visions of Culture

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The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery

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China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesnt have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers – the kind of people the U.S. is built upon. – James Dyson

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