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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.
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Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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Honore De Balzac (1799 - 1850)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need.
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John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
In all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.
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Eda J. Le Shan
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