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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who…

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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done…
It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But…
We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The…
This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree…
The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why…
The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being…
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation…
There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And…
The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the…
Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't…
Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup…

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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. — H. P. Blavatsky
Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events. — Caroline Myss
Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence… — Milan Kundera
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. — Sallust
It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events. — David Hume
The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with… — Peter A. Levine
Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in… — Jill Bolte Taylor
. . . What role does historiography play in the way a society and culture "remembers" past events? Does the historian have… — Unknown Author
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with… — Eric Foner
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing… — Georges Cuvier

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