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History is a vast early warning system.
History is a vast early warning system.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
Look to the past for guidance into the future.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
In a certain sense all men are historians.
In a certain sense all men are historians.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
