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The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. -- Robin G. Collingwood
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it. -- John Buchan
The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future. -- B. H. Liddell Hart
The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents. -- Mary Renault
The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future. -- Carl L. Becker
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger
It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history. -- Matthew Stewart
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives. -- William Lacy Clay, Jr.
Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war. -- Charles Krauthammer
However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness. -- Tran ?uc Luong
You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for. -- David Attenborough
It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them. -- Sidney Blumenthal
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history. -- Caroline Kennedy
I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values; our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism; and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space. -- David Blunkett
Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it. -- Terry Jones
Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people. -- Karyn Parsons
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export. -- Catherine Helen Spence
I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge. -- Richard Dawkins
The American people need to know that there are folks here fighting as hard as they can for individual liberty, economic freedom, appropriate national security and the fundamental moral values that have made our nation the greatest nation in the history of mankind. -- Tom Price
I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment. -- Lisel Mueller
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not. -- Samuel E. Morison
Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind. -- James Altucher
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere. -- Terry Eagleton
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I think the inflation prospects for the U.S. over the next five or six, seven years, are quite serious. You cannot have a bumper crop in apples without the value or the price of each apple falling. The Fed has had the largest increase in the monetary base in the history of the U.S., from colonial times to the present, times ten. -- Arthur Laffer
History is only a value of relation. -- Henry Adams
Value people on their potential, not on their history. -- Bo Bennett
The history of mankind is the history of money losing value. -- Milton Friedman
An artist should know art history. Shock value only lasts so long. -- Robert Longo
Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. -- Nikolai A. Berdyaev
Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. -- Nikolai A. Berdyaev
I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero. -- Robert Kiyosaki
History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose. -- J. H. Plumb
Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. -- Richard Stallman
Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind. -- James Altucher
The careful student of history will discover that Christianity has been of very little value in advancing civilization, but has done a great deal toward retarding it. -- Matilda Joslyn Gage
History teaches that when valuations are extreme, "mean reversion," a move towards historical norms, is likely. Once value stocks turn, the recovery can be fast and intense. -- Robert D. Arnott
History shows that pay-TV subscribers flee in droves to alternative providers when there is even a rare service disruption - demonstrating a quantifiable value for 'must-have' broadcast programming. -- Gordon Smith
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art. -- Andre Malraux

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