Do not count on much from the future, nor trouble your mind about the past.
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Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.
Past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide to the future.
Heroes create circumstances; circumstances create heroes.
Troubled times produce heroes.
To understand the present, examine the past; without the past, there would be no present.
In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of th
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As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.
My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know o
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Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-
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