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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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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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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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"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."
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"The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it."
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"It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'. There may be those in Texas now who believe they can insulate their state-a state that had its own courageous revolution-from the news of evolution and from the writing in 1786 of a Constitution that refuses to mention religion except when demarcating and limiting its role in the public square. But we promise them today that they will join their fore-runners in the flat-earth community, and in the mad clerical clique of those who believed that the sun revolved around the earth. Yes, they will be in schoolbooks-as a joke on the epic scale of William Jennings Bryan. We shall be fair, and take care to ensure that their tale is told."
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"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."
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"I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something."
People
"I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern."
Actor
"Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment."
Business
"It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy."
Change
"I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far."
People
"Money is a way of creating scarcity."
Money
"Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector."
Corporate
"You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it."
Artist
"The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship."
Self
"Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines."
History
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