Read no history--nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Benjamin Disraeli
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If you're not reading history, you're reading biography. Biography is merely the story of someone's life, told in their own words. The biographer tells the story, giving us their interpretation of the events. Today, we like to call this "interpretive biography," but it's really just biography, and it can be very boring.

But if you read history, you'll find that history has its own theory. We can learn from history, because it's about people who are trying to solve problems. History always contains theory.

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