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“Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.”

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Book:The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

Source: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

“History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.”

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Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.”

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Book:The Civil War

Source: The Civil War

“History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy.”

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Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.”

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Book:Existential Errands

Source: Existential Errands

“You can't be neutral on a moving train.”

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Book:Marx in Soho: A Play on History

Source: Marx in Soho: A Play on History

“History is a vision of God's creation on the move.”

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Book:A Study of History: Abridgement of

Source: A Study of History: Abridgement of

“The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here in your mind, muddying your present moments. Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much longer. But all are necessary, otherwise they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.”

“Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche.”