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" Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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" The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history. "

Bertrand Russell

" Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc. "

Friedrich Engels

" There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. "

" Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. "

" The history of liberty is a history of resistance. "

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" Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. "

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" The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. "

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" More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. "

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Charles de Gaulle

" There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go. "

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