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Sarah Bernhardt

"Legend remains victorious in spite of history."

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"Legend remains victorious in spite of history."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

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Asa Don Brown

"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."

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Asa Don Brown

"Most of Jesus' life is told through the four Gospels of the New Testament, known as the Canonical gospels, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are not biographies in the modern sense but accounts with allegorical intent. They are written to engender faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and not to provide factual data about Jesus's life. This left the door of exaggeration open. And through that door all kinds of mystical non-sense crept in and made place right alongside the good philosophical teachings of Jesus."

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Asa Don Brown

"It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery."

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Asa Don Brown

"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

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Asa Don Brown

"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."

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Asa Don Brown

"All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women."

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Asa Don Brown

"History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong."

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Asa Don Brown

"The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4."

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"Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal."
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"I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me."
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"Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country."
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