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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. - P

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. – Pearl Buck

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In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder. – Pearl Buck

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Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing. – Willis Thornton, Fable, Fact and History

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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. – Rebecca West

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Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history. – Carlton J.H. Hayes

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When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas. – Evita Peron

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