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When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the ro

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world. – Conrad Black

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The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, theres only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. – Jimmy Carter

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History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern. – Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, Truth and Opinion

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Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and cant do to describe something like war or history. Im not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing. – Haruki Murakami

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