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"Ideas shape the course of history."
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
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"This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always been our dearest hope. Your too sudden passion is made up of spite and necessity."
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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
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"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."
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"What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!"
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"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."
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"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."
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"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."
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"Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older."
Love
"For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still."
God
"Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others."
Success
"I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."
Conservative
"There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out."
Being
"It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil."
Creativity
"The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward."
Society
"Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."
Society
"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
Government
"Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be."
Society
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