"Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age."

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

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"Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

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"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

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"In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning."

William Hull, American Soldier

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"This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."

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"The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed."

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"That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine."

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"He believed that rank without power was a sham."

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"Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times."

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"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

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"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."

"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

"Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for."

"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

"The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history."

"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

"In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning."

Explore more quotes by Barbara Tuchman

"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."

"The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed."

"That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine."

"He believed that rank without power was a sham."

"Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times."

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

"Connection" was the cement of the governing class."

"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."

"Everything took on the color of blood."

"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."