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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
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"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."
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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
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"By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?"
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."
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"We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable."
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"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."
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"The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."
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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."
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"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."
Business
"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
Thought
"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."
Education
"Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother."
Equality
"The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear."
Fear
"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin."
Faith
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
Man
"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
Knowledge
"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
Men
"Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards."
Time
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