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«The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.»
«Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.»
«Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.»
«Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.»
«Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.»
«Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it»
«Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.»
«Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.»
«Service without ideal of self . . . trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography, and to realize that the human community is one and indivisible.»
«Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.»

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