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• We cannot escape history.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Race, African American, Development

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.102, Book Tree

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• nd now that man's history has been for the first time systematically considered as a whole, and has been found to be, like all other phenomena, subject to invariable laws, the preparatory labours of modern Science are ended.

  Auguste Comte

  Law, Firsts, Found

  "A General View of Positivism".

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• Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

  Anwar Sadat

  Pregnancy, Giving, United States

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• History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

  Max Beerbohm

  Doe, Historian, Repeats

  "The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm".

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• The past does not influence me; I influence it.

  Willem de Kooning

  Inspirational, Motivational, Past

  "Bloodroot" by Seth Colter Walls, pitchfork.com. April 20, 2017.

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• History: a collection of epitaphs.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Epitaph, Collections

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

  Benito Mussolini

  Writing, Winning, Hands

  "Famous Lines : A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations" by Robert Andrews, (p. 330), 1997.

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• 90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

  Colin Powell

  Military, World, My Time

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• The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

  George Will

  Change, Future, Preparation

  George F. Will (1992). “Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990”

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• We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Redeemer

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• It's a very good historical book about history.

  Dan Quayle

  Book, Historical, Tourism

  David S. Broder, Bob Woodward, Dan Quayle (1992). “The man who would be president: Dan Quayle”

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• When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

  Shailer Mathews

  Country, Gone, Return

  Shailer Mathews (2006). “The Spiritual Interpretation of History”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

  David Hume

  Principles, Use, Strange

  David Hume (1788). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.90

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• Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Strong, Philosophy

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.63, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Men make their own history

  Karl Marx

  Men, Communist Manifesto, History Repeats Itself

  The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon pt. 1 (1852)

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• Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.

  Jacques Ellul

  Philosophy, Human Experience, Humans

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• In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Religious, War, Reality

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• It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

  Gertrude Stein

  Doe, Soothing, Repeats

  "Wars I Have Seen". Book by Gertrude Stein, 1945.

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• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  Tacitus

  Best Friend, Worst Enemy, Evil

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• A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Military, Nuclear Missiles, Would Be

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at Soviet official banquet at St George's Halls, The Kremlin, www.margaretthatcher.org. March 30, 1987.

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• The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.

  Harry S. Truman

  Marine, Army, Long

  Harry S. Truman (1995). “The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• World War II was the last government program that really worked.

  George Will

  Peace, War, Government

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• The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Errors, Race, Long

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.237, Modern Library

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• Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state.

  T. S. Eliot

  Real, Passion, Mean

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