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William J Durant: "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." # History and Historians # Cleverness # Intelligence and Intellectuals

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H G Wells: "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." # History and Historians # Education # Humankind

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Gustave Flaubert: "Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times." # History and Historians # Slander # Time and Time Management

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H G Wells: "History is a race between education and catastrophe." # History and Historians # Freedom # Power

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Robert Heinlein: "A generation which ignores history has no past and no future." # History and Historians # Past # The future

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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 # Action # Government

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Edward Gibbon: "History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." # History and Historians # Crime and Criminals # Misfortunes

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Sir Max Beerbohm: "To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine." # History and Historians # Writers and Writing # Responsibility

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Source Unknown: "Every time history repeats itself the price goes up." # History and Historians # Price # Time and Time Management

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Henry Ford: "History is more or less bunk." # History and Historians # Freedom # Power

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A brief history of violence

Steven Pinker charts the decline of violence from Biblical times to the present, and argues that, though it may seem illogical and even obscene, given Iraq and Darfur, we are living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

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