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"History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all."
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"Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need."
"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."
"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
"Dr. Rex Curry, the professor and attorney from Florida, has debated and largely proven the unavoidable evidence that Hitler's National Socialism was significantly influenced by Bellamy's 'nationalistic' form of 'socialism.' Curry is famous for making the claim that Hitler adopted the 'stiff-arm salute' from Francis and Edward Bellamy."
"But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy."
"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."
"Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time."
"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."
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"I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary."
"I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty."
"I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc."
"Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect."
"So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine."
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