"History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations."

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Source : James Harvey Robinson (1912). “The New History: Essays Illustrating the Modern Historical Outlook”

James Harvey Robinson

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“A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.”
“Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose.”
“I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.”
“Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience. He spoke to that part of the person that knows the difference between right and wrong instinctively.”

Source : "Kirk Cameron: The Gospel Truth". Interview with Laura Bagby, www.cbn.com.
“The totalitarian phenomenon is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or - much more mysteriously - to submit to it.”
“The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.”
“I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.”
“Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.”

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