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Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the days of his childhood and his youth, and recalls to his mind the strange notions and false opinions that swayed his actions at the time, that he may wonder at them; so should society, for its edification, look back to the opinions which governed ages that fled.
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history-of-mankind
reflection
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Charles MacKay |
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Many collectors died in process of searching for new species, and despite persistent reports that the men died from drowning, gunshot and knife wounds, snakebite, trampling by cattle, or blows in the head with blunt instruments, it is generally accepted that in each case the primary cause of death was orchid fever.
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history-of-mankind
humor
orchids
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Eric Hansen |
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These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness
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belief-system
belief-systems
beliefs
dune
dune-arrakis
dune-house-atreides
dune-messiah
evil
evil-men
faith
falsehood
falsehoods
good
goodness
historical
historical-perspective
history
history-of-mankind
history-of-thought
justice-of-god
moral
moral-law
morality
morals
religion
religion-philosophy
religion-spirituality
religions
religious
religious-faith
virtue
virtues
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Frank Herbert |
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The stubborn inequalities in the Unites States are not the result of some people living in a physical environment. Their environment is built by social forces, and those forces last for centuries because they are regenerated across the generations.
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history-of-mankind
history-of-the-united-states
psychology
sociology
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Carl Zimmer |
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Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down--or up, I suppose--replacing other people in the process.
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history
history-of-mankind
history-repeating-itself
human-history
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Alexander McCall Smith |