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"I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening."
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"Dr. Rex Curry, the professor and attorney from Florida, has debated and largely proven the unavoidable evidence that Hitler's National Socialism was significantly influenced by Bellamy's 'nationalistic' form of 'socialism.' Curry is famous for making the claim that Hitler adopted the 'stiff-arm salute' from Francis and Edward Bellamy."
"But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy."
"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."
"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."
"The Beetle's body, whether it be a '49 split or a '73 Jeans Bug, or an '03 Mexican, was originally conceived in the mid 1930's. This is evident in it's body styling which aside from it's rear engine layout and absence of front radiator (or radiator!) grille, is very similar to other cars of the same period. Believe it or not, in those days streamlining was a hot new concept, kind of like how wireless networking is today with computing.The only problem was, in the beginning they didn't seem to realize that streamlining ought to be applied sideways as well as longitudinally!"
"The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary."
"The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods."
"Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war."
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"Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment."
"Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time."
"The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author."
"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day."
"I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person."
"If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one."
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