"History is clarified experience."
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"The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs."
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"The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent"
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"We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been."
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"It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued."
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"History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page."
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"The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase."
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"The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit."
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"Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line."
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"It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness."
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"History at its best is vicarious experience."
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"The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it."
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"(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought."
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"It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothing. The new must be made through untrodden regions, without suppositions, and often, unfortunately, without piety also."
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"Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?"
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"The English love an insult. It's their only test of a man's sincerity."
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"Art is far feebler than necessity."
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"False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own."
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"We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable."
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"war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, animals and insects, deleterious environments, virulent pathogens, infectious agents, noxious gases, and combustible chemicals were marshalled to defeat foes - and panoply is an apt term here, because it is the ancient Greek word for 'all weapons."
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