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«The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more»
Author: Carl Becker
| About:
History,
Mind,
Value
| Keywords:
deepen, deepening, enables, fortified, fortifies, fortifying, prepares, sympathies
«Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.»
Author: Haile Selassie
(Emperor, Statesman)
| About:
Actors and acting,
History
| Keywords:
acted, inaction, indifference, mattered, The Silence, The Voice, throughout, triumph
«Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could move us all forward.»
«The vanquished themselves prove that history has not lied; like tourists in hell, they took snapshots.»
Author: Theodore Strauss
| About:
History
| Keywords:
lied, snapshot, snapshots, tourists, vanquished
«The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still»
«This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.»
«The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
| About:
Action,
History
| Keywords:
infamous, Office of, posterity, take to, take to be
«The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
Empire, historical, historical period, roman, Roman Empire, sixties
«The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice»
«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.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
History,
Justice,
World
| Keywords:
History of, History of the, History of the world, nations, no longer, summed, sum up
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