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"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."
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"History must be documented, every moment is a sacred history."

"Once upon a time, there was a civilization in the eastern side of the world. It was one of the most advanced civilizations on the planet that existed during that time.This civilization was the glorious Indus valley civilization. No, I am not talking about India. I am talking about the land of greatness that got lost in time. Today, in the same geographical location of that great civilization, we have a piece of earth, which is known as "India. But do not mistake it to be the same glorious land that existed thousands of years ago, along with other magnificent civilizations, such as the Greeks, the Mayans, the Egyptians, the Babylonians etc."

"It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted."

"Every period in history has its own peculiarities."

"If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing."
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"It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling."

"I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything that is done."

"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought."

"It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false."

"There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought."
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