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Frederick William Faber : The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it. # History and Historians

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Richard M Stallman : " Religious people often say that religion offers absolute certainty about right and wrong; 'god tells them' what it is. Even supposing that the aforementioned gods exist, and that the believers really know what the gods think, that still does not provide certainty, because any being no matter how powerful can still be wrong. Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral. " # History and Historians

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton : " People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. " # History and Historians

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Source Unknown : " Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain a child for ever and ever. " # History and Historians

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Coretta Scott King : " There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. " # History and Historians

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Thomas B Macaulay : " History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires. " # History and Historians

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George Bernard Shaw : " If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! " # History and Historians

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George Bernard Shaw : " If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. " # History and Historians

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Martin Van Buren : " All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess. " # History and Historians

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Ellen Glasgow : " No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. " # History and Historians

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F E Smith : " Politically, economically and philosophically the motive of self-interest not only is but must...and ought to be the mainspring of human conduct...For as long a time as the records of history have been preserved human societies passed through a ceaseless process of evolution and adjustment. This process has sometimes been pacific, but more often it has resulted from warlike disturbance. The strength of different nations, measured in terms of arms, varies from century to century. The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords; it is therefore extremely improbable that the experience of future ages will differ in any material respect from that which has happened since the twilight of the human race...it is for us who, in our history have proved ourselves a martial...people...to maintain in our own hands the adequate means for our own protection and...to march with heads erect and bright eyes along the road of our imperial destiny. " # History and Historians

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Frederick William Faber: " The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it." # History and Historians

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Frederick William Faber: " There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go." # Friends and Friendship # Happiness # Love

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Frederick William Faber: " This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come." # Action # Happiness # Success

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