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Paul Johnson Quotes:

Ocupation: Journalist

Life: b. November 2, 1928

Birthday: November 2

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

- Paul Johnson

source: Paul Johnson (1980). “The Things that are Not Caesar's”

topic: Powerful, Earth Day, Arrogance, Postmodernism, Constructivism, Guise

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