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Quote by Walter Bagehot
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and instit

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. – Walter Bagehot

Other quotes by Walter Bagehot

The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. – Walter Bagehot

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Royalty, Kings, Queens
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Walter Bagehot
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot

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Poverty
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Walter Bagehot
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. – Walter Bagehot

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Government
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History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. – Daisaku Ikeda

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History

A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. – John Maynard Keynes

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History

It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths. – Herbert J. Muller, Freedom in the Western World

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History

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. Theres so much more to the story. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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History

Random Quotes

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. – Khalil Gibran

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Love

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female. – Queen Latifah

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Age

Every child begins the world again…. – Henry David Thoreau

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Baby or Adoption

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. Im talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor. – Alvin Toffler

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Computers