Think Beyond Common Sense

"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity."
Cicero

"The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid."
Livy

"What experience and history teach is this-that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
G. W. F. Hegel

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