#history

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. ↗

— Max Lerner

#lessons #most #part #rationalizations #so-called

The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#funded #history #look #making #moment

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had. ↗

— Al Lewis

#america #amount #any #brutal #capita

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#ceased #christians #did #find #history

When you look back in history and see other fighters coming back, it's never really been good for them. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#been #coming #fighters #good #history

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#articulate #history #meaningful #parody #provide

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them. ↗

— John Walker Lindh

#became #general #great #great love #heart

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#alter #cannot #god #historians #past

The history of art is the history of revivals. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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