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I always dreamed of going out to space. The idea of going to a planet where nobody's ever been is attractive to me, it just suits my nature.

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For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

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An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

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History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

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Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

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Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

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A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

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