#study history

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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I study history in order to give an interpretation. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#history #i #interpretation #order #study

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#faith #history #meaning #means #nevertheless

Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail. ↗

— John Thorn

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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american #american history #because #could #encouragement

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning. ↗

— George F. Kennan

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I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

#anymore #because #even #geography #history

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

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