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“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”

“The most common characteristic of women's history is to be lost and discovered, lost again and rediscovered, lost once more and re-rediscovered - a process of tragic waste and terrible silences that will continue until women's stories are a full and equal part of the human story.”

Humans Stories Lost Process Common Silence History Terrible Equal Waste Characteristics Tragic

Author:Gloria Steinem

“It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.”

Might Age Loses Common History Old Age Desirable Calamity Roman Empire

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes

“What the study of history and artistic creation have in common is a mode of forming images.”

Art Artist Common History Study Creation Artistic Artistic Creation

Book:Dutch civilisation in the seventeenth century, and other essays

Source: Dutch civilisation in the seventeenth century, and other essays

“Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars; just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,--the every-day life of each particular time and country.”

Want Giving Country Common History Rocks Events Particular Extraordinary Complaining Curious Historian Day Life Geologist

Book:Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

Source: Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley

“The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.”

Two Beautiful Natural Common History Environment Conditions Ordinary Criticism Historical Extraordinary Suspects Really Great Maxims Axioms Improbable

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles.”

People Spirit Common Numbers Race Principles Teach History Greater Consequence Accustomed Similarity

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and even the study of history would largely be useless. In effect, if the future actions of men having nothing in common with their past actions, our knowledge of them, although possibly satisfying our curiosity by way of an interesting story, would be entirely useless to us as a guide in life.”

“It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts of other capitalist states. While few would disagree that the Nazi regime had a number of clear ideological preferences when it came to the economy, the policies pursued in 1933 had much in common with those adopted in other countries, and with the policies of the pre-Hitler governments.”