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"History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
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"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."
"The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments."
"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."
"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."
"The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it."
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"A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!"
"Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when."
"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"
"Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline."
"A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple."
"Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts."
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