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"History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?"
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"That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."

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