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"The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little."
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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."
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"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."
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"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."
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"Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but live for it."
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"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
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