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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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humor
orchids
history-of-mankind
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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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virtue
history
good
morality
goodness
faith
religion
religious
belief-systems
dune-arrakis
dune-house-atreides
evil-men
falsehoods
justice-of-god
dune-messiah
dune
moral-law
religion-philosophy
falsehood
historical-perspective
history-of-thought
history-of-mankind
belief-system
religion-spirituality
religious-faith
historical
beliefs
religions
moral
virtues
morals
evil
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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
sociology
psychology
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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
human-history
history-repeating-itself
history-of-mankind
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Alexander McCall Smith |