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Quote by Thomas Merton
If you want to study the social and political history of modern na

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton

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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. – Thomas Merton

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The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. – Simon Wiesenthal

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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. – Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley

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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. – E. O. Wilson

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You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself. – Ethel Barrymore

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Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. – Emily Dickinson

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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. – Thomas Hardy

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One of these days is none of these days. – H.G. Bohn

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