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"History is written by the winners."
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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
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"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."
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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
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"By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?"
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."
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"We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable."
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"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."
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"The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."
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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."
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"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."
Time
"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."
Strength
"A leader is a dealer in hope."
Leadership
"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."
Leadership
"Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy."
Health
"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."
Courage
"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."
Diplomacy
"Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking."
Ambition
"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."
Courage
"War is the business of barbarians."
War
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