"Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison."
-Walter Bagehot
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"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.“
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"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
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"Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success."
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"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable."
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"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea."
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"The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen."
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-Desmond Tutu
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"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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