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"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."
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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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"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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"Most of Jesus' life is told through the four Gospels of the New Testament, known as the Canonical gospels, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are not biographies in the modern sense but accounts with allegorical intent. They are written to engender faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and not to provide factual data about Jesus's life. This left the door of exaggeration open. And through that door all kinds of mystical non-sense crept in and made place right alongside the good philosophical teachings of Jesus."
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"I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today."
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"It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery."
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"It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history."
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"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
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"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."
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"All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women."
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"I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them."
Patience
"We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion."
Change
"No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination."
Experience
"The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher."
Education
"Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free."
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"Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark."
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"It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine."
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"We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains."
Existence
"The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need."
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"A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives."
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