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Philip Reeve has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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An Engineer is no match for a Historian with his dander up!
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Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession -…
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That's what History teaches us, I think, that life goes on, even though individuals die and whole civilizations crumble away: The simple…
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he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America
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But boys will be boys, even the ones who are only girls dressed up: That's one of the rules of the world.
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The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.
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That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the…
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Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't.
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Is it...dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright. "A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's…
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You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive…
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Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the…
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It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out…
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History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.
— Jean Bodin
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with…
— Douglas MacArthur
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History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
— Thomas Jefferson
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From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal…
— Pete du Pont
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Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always…
— Unknown Author
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Even as we do all that's necessary to ensure Israel's security, even as we are clear-eyed about the difficult challenges before us,…
— Barack Obama
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If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.
— Peter Ustinov
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
— Wole Soyinka
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History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression,…
— Jimmy Carter
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If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.
— Gordon S. Wood
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History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.
— Chalmers Johnson
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