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“In the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war.”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History
“In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History
“It is not the race that makes the civilization, it is the civilization that makes the people: circumstances geographical, economic, and political create a culture, and the culture creates a human type.”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History
“We must operate with partial knowledge, and be provisionally content with probabilities.”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History
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