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History is an endless maze of unrelated happenings, until we divide it up into brief portions in which we discern a certain unity of purpose.

— Samuel McChord Crothers On the Evening of the New Day (1919)

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To keep shooting at a folly after it is dead is unsportsmanlike.

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We sometimes speak of stubborn facts. Nonsense! A fact is a mere babe when compared with a stubborn theory.

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There is no absurdity in its mental processes; all that is concealed in its assumptions.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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