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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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We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. – Thomas Merton

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Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. – Lech Walesa

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape – into time. – A.L. Rowse, The Use of History

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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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