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“History is what we read, write and think about the past.”

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Michael Howard, a renowned military historian, was born on November 29, 1922. He has made significant contributions to the field of military history, particularly in the study of the Second World War. more

“I make no apologies for any inconsistencies or contradictions in my essays. Those who do not change their minds in the course of a decade have probably stopped thinking all together. The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.”

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Author:Michael Howard

“People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.”

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Author:Michael Howard

“History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.”

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Book:A History of Modern Britain

Source: A History of Modern Britain

“I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.”

Want Play Special Effects Spy Special Effects Fireman

Author:Jackie Chan

“The best use of history is as an inoculation against radical expectations, and hence against embittering disappointments.”

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Book:The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts

Source: The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts

“History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.”

History Morality Tales

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“History is what the evidence compels us to believe.”

Believe History Evidence

Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.”

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Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.”

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Author:Adam Garfinkle

“Western elites - the beneficiaries of 60 years of peace and prosperity achieved by the sacrifices to defeat fascism and Communism - are unhappy in their late middle age, and show little gratitude for, or any idea about, what gave them such latitude. If they cannot find perfection in history, they see no good at all.”

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Author:Victor Davis Hanson

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