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"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
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"This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always been our dearest hope. Your too sudden passion is made up of spite and necessity."
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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
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"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."
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"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."
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"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."
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"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."
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"Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly."
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
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"Consciousness is a born hermit."
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"I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life, I should not be honest otherwise."
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"Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy."
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"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
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"The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication."
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"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."
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"That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions."
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"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
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