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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it.

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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History is the invention of historians.

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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.

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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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

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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

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Language is the archives of history.

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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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