"Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity."
-David Hume
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"The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.“
-David Hume
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"Truth springs from argument amongst friends."
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"Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected."
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"A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century."
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"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous."
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
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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."
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
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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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