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History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always read more
History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.
We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just read more
We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in read more
The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in the middle.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.
The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.