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"By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam."
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"We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other."
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"After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate."
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"I have been blessed often by Buddha, but equally by America."
Society
"From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism."
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"By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam."
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"Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena."
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"After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment."
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"The way Americans understand and treat other peoples almost guarantees that the world will suffer more trouble."
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"By fighting a limited, defensive war, America permitted the enemy to endlessly re-supply their field armies."
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"South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake."
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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."
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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."
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"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."
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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."
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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."
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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
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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."
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