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"While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive."
Power
"If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress."
Politics
"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."
Experience
"People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours."
People
"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
Leadership
"We are all the President's men."
Man
"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative."
Thought
"I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850."
Mistake
"The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples."
Power
"No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none."
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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."
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Personal Development
"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."
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Personal Development
"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."
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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."
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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."
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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
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