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But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough…
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There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
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From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has…
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From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of…
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Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
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The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I…
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DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
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What can art really do in the face of atrocity?
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Great art has dreadful manners. The greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure, and then proceed in short…
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Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to…
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Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, he began at the moment that it…
— Thucydides
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn…
— Barry S. Strauss
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The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a…
— Horace Walpole
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I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical…
— Richard Cobden
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I, for one, will be convinced that the Canada we know and love will be gone forever. But, then, Thucydides wrote that…
— Pierre Trudeau
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But, Jefferson worried that the people - and the argument goes back to Thucydides and Aristotle - are easily misled. He also…
— Carl Sagan
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Half of these aren't even Machiavelli. Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the…
— Simon Schama
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