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“If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.”

Ifs Humans Might Human Beings Mistake History Stupid Understood Cease Stupid Mistake

Book:Prelude to Foundation

Source: Prelude to Foundation

“History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.”

Needs Wells Facts History Events Perspective Distance Cease

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.”

Certain Views History Cease

Author:E. P. Thompson

“One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.”

People History Lonely Cease Recollection

Book:I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century

Source: I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century

“Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.”

Government Law Liberty History Democracy Cease Progressive

Book:Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist

“When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?”

Men Has Beens Made Ends Facts Past Science Universe History Development Tasks Accounts Missions Cease Phenomenon Phases Examination Past Life Classification

Book:The Grammar of Science

Source: The Grammar of Science