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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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Norman Cousins: "History is a vast early warning system." # History and Historians

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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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Lillian Hellman: "Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view." # History and Historians # Babies # Judgment and Judges

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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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Samuel Butler: "God cannot alter the past, but historians can." # History and Historians # Past # God

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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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Dan Quayle: "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur." # History and Historians

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David Hume: "History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature." # History and Historians # Principles # Change

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Maurice Masterlinck: "At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past." # History and Historians # Past # The future

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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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