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“History is rooted in the future”

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Terence McKenna was a renowned philosopher known for his profound insights into consciousness, botany, and human potential. His ideas were deeply influenced by his family's genetic research and studies on the evolution of human consciousness. more

“Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.”

Has Beens Country Play Speak Dark Race Historical Our Country These Days Memorable Stations Thank God Great Day Never Give In Dark Days

Author:Winston Churchill

“History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.”

Littles Past Path Strange Future Historical Unpredictable Over The Past

Book:Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait

Source: Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait

“History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . .”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?”

Nature Historical Dear Credulity

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.”

Book Real Philosophy Found Wonder Rich Rivers Historical Ran Flavor Magician Persistent Finishing Finishing It

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.”

Men Purpose Given Work Brain Wonderful Constitution Historical British Subtle Progressive Organisms Constitution Of The United States Us Constitution Constitutional Convention American Constitution British Constitution

Author:William E. Gladstone

“The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.”

Source: Qataban and Sheba: Exploring the Ancient Kingdoms on the Biblical Spice Routes of Arabia

“I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.”

Stills Real Sleep Democracy Remains Angry Historical Tongue Repeats Pens Tempest Resonance Syllables Unwritten Gist

Book:Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

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