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"History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim."
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"Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need."

"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

"Dr. Rex Curry, the professor and attorney from Florida, has debated and largely proven the unavoidable evidence that Hitler's National Socialism was significantly influenced by Bellamy's 'nationalistic' form of 'socialism.' Curry is famous for making the claim that Hitler adopted the 'stiff-arm salute' from Francis and Edward Bellamy."

"But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy."

"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."

"Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time."

"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."
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"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."


"The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization."


"The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now."


"Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs."


"A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production."


"On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break."


"All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense."
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