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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."
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"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."
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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
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"By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such an occurrence too?"
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."
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"We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some now incomprehensible affection which sound to us like Sanskrit or Chocktaw; we see dimly people, the people in whose living blood and seed we ourselves lay dormant and waiting, in this shadowy attenuation of time possessing now heroic proportions, performing their acts of simple passion and simple violence, impervious to time and inexplicable."
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"The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."
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"The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."
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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."
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"I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains."
Faith
"Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future."
History
"I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline."
Living
"We will work with everybody for the good of New York."
Work
"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment."
Responsibility
"The foreign press seems obsessed with the Freedom Tower, as if it was the only thing going on here. In fact, we're trying to keep a huge juggling act in balance, with the tower as just one of the many balls in play."
Act
"And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans."
Development
"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker."
Project
"There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private."
Competition
"Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built."
Architecture
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