"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."

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"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict."

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

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"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history."

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"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

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"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

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"This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors."

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"The past is not a package one can lay away."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present."

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"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong."

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"If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer."

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"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

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"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."

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"Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves."

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