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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

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The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

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All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw Playwright

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Desmond Tutu Activist

Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.

A. A. Gill Writer

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

A. J. P. Taylor Historian

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

Abraham Lincoln 16th U.S. President

On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!

Alexander The Great Military Commander

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