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But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky...more

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In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom wa...more

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Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress o...more

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Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of it. 'If it was done with such assurance and eve...more

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I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

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Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

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Man lives consciously for himself but unconsciously he serves as an instrument for the accomplishment of historical and social ends.

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There are two sides to the life of every man: there is his individual existence which is free in proportion as his interests are abstract; and his ele...more

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The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

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he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.

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What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the wil...more

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This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.