"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
― Alexis de Tocqueville
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― Alexis de Tocqueville
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- "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
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- "History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It’s one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn’t live without."― Howard Nemerov
- "I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy."― Shimon Peres