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Quote by Michael Howard

“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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Michael Howard

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

“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.”

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Author:Jackie Chan

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

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