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"A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all."
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"The history of man is a must read poetry."
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"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
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"History proved many times that path of millions was often the wrong path!"
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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."
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"Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation."
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"We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat."
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"The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible."
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
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"According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for."
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"Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them."
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"At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary."
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