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"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."
"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."
"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."
"It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery."
"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."
"The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4."
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"I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."
"If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past."
"Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation."
"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem."
"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
"Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up."
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