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Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning prayer.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Age: 61 †
Born: 1770
Born: August 27
Died: 1831
Died: November 14
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We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.
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