"Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond."
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.“
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature."
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"World history is a court of judgment."
-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
-Carlos Fuentes
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
-Strom Thurmond
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
-Harry Browne
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
-Claude Vorilhon
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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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
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