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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems. ↗

— Lindsay Davenport

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The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. ↗

— Edwin Powell Hubble

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Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

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