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"In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine."
"I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling."
"I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally."
"The history of Christianity, therefore, must be of concern to all who are interested in the record of man and particularly to all who seek to understand the contemporary human scene."
"Everything will turn into a ruin, even your beliefs will turn into a ruin! There will be no more believers from your belief, there will be only the viewers around your belief, watching this belief of once upon a time, and now just a ruin!"
"I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past."
"Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won."
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"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."
"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."
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