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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.: G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Natural History of Intellect (1893)
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.: Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932), Eminent Victorians (1918)
Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.: Donald H. Rumsfeld (1932 - ), Department of Defense news briefing, February 12, 2002
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.: Robertson Davies
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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.: Georg W. Hegel (1770 - 1831)
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Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy.: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
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The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Advice to Youth
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