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"I think people in general have neglected to learn about history."
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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."

"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."

"Most of Jesus' life is told through the four Gospels of the New Testament, known as the Canonical gospels, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are not biographies in the modern sense but accounts with allegorical intent. They are written to engender faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and not to provide factual data about Jesus's life. This left the door of exaggeration open. And through that door all kinds of mystical non-sense crept in and made place right alongside the good philosophical teachings of Jesus."

"It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery."

"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."

"The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4."
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"Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes."

"I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour."

"I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do."

"A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories."

"Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music."

"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes."

"Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily."
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