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“"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We must consider how very little history there is--I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.”

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Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind. The observer of the realm of history cannot be disinterested in the same way, for two reasons: first, he must look at history from some locus in history; secondly, he is to a certain degree engaged in its ideological conflicts.”

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Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”

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Book:A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

Source: A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes

“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”

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Book:Physics and Politics: Or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society

Source: Physics and Politics: Or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

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Author:Voltaire

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

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Author:E. P. Thompson

“Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.”

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Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In a certain sense all men are historians.”

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Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle

“It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.”

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Book:The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Downing Street years, 1934-1940

Source: The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Downing Street years, 1934-1940

“The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.”

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Book:For Reasons Of State

Source: For Reasons Of State

“All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.”

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Author:Victor Cousin

“For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any certain way attain to the true causes, he will adopt whatever suppositions enable the motions to be computed correctly from the principles of geometry for the future as well as for the past.”

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Author:Andreas Osiander

“The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life.”

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Author:Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp

“The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present.”

Source: The Whig interpretation of history

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