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Raymond Queneau

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortunes.

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Michael Pupin, fully Michael Idvosky Pupin

The human soul, in so far as science can penetrate, is the last chapter of cosmic history as far as it has been written. It is in the soul that Divinity resides.

Divinity | History | Science | Soul |

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Winwood Reade, fully William Winwood Reade

The history of morals is the extension of the reciprocal or selfish virtues from the clan to the tribe, from the tribe to the nation, from the nation to all communities living under the same government, civil or religious, then people of the same colour, and finally to all mankind.

Government | History | Mankind | People |

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Jonathan Schell, fully Jonathan Edward Schell

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

History | Men | Nature | World |

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Haile Selassie

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.

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Haile Selassie

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is grater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

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William Ritchie Sorley

Men are free to work out their purposes, and, at the same time, there is a divine purpose in the world which human history fulfills and to which the environment of nature is subordinate. Here God and man meet.

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Gerald Vann

We of the modern West are the only people in the whole history of the world who have refused to find an explanation of the universe in a divine mind and will.

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Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi

The aim and end of war is murder; the weapons employed in war are espionage, treachery and the encouragement of treachery, the ruining of a country, the plundering and robbing of its inhabitants for the maintenance of the army, and trickery and lying which all appear under the heading of the art of war. The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom – in other words, a rigorous discipline – enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery, and drunkenness.

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Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi

All human history from the earliest times to our own day may be considered as a movement of consciousness both of individuals and of homogeneous groups from lower ideas to higher ones.

Consciousness | Day | History | Ideas |

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Hank Dittmar

If we surrender our towns, countryside, and cities to the car, we will also be surrendering many other values that we hold dear: neighborhood life, a sense of history and place, a feeling of belonging somewhere.

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Albert Einstein

The pioneers of a warless world are the [youth] who refuse military service.

Service | World | Youth |

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Al Gore, Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr.,

What makes the United States special in the history of nations is our commitment to the rule of law and our carefully constructed system of checks and balances. Our national distrust of concentrated power and our devotion to openness and democracy are what have led us as a people to consistently choose good over evil in our collective aspirations.

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