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“the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

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“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds; let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.”

― John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

topic:judgement history

“a city like Paris is perpetually growing. It is only such cities that become capitals. They are funnels, into which all the geographical, political, moral, and intellectual water-sheds of a country, all the natural slopes of a people, pour; wells...”

― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

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“If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

topic:history difficulty

“History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.”

― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

topic:freedom history

“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:self humanity history

“We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift: We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.”

― JAY-Z, Decoded

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