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"The history of man is a must read poetry."
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"You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft."
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"A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'"
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"The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt."
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"I loved psychology and I loved history."
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"I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling."
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"At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history."
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"When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas."
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"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place."
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"The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it."
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Explore more quotes by Walt Whitman

"Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle."
Emotional

"Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy."
History

"The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world."
Man

"Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed."
Fool

"And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death."
Death

"The real war will never get in the books."
War

"Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?"
Vision

"Freedom - to walk free and own no superior."
Freedom

"Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won."
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"Simplicity is the glory of expression."
Expression
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