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A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.

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By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

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It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

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All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

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I invented the historical spy novel.

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Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

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You accept the historical Jesus?

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Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

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No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy.

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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

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It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

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Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief that there is a God arose and how this belief acquired its weight and importance: a counter-proof that there is no God thereby becomes superfluous.- When in former times one had refuted the 'proofs of the existence of God' put forward, there always remained the doubt whether better proofs might not be adduced than those just refuted: in those days atheists did not know how to make a clean sweep.

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The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

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Language is the archives of history.

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Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

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Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.

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A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

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Disneyworld... is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.

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