"There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history."

History, People, Genocide

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"There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history."

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

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"This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors."

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"The past is not a package one can lay away."

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"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong."

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"An important part of what the state does is preserving its history."

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"Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia."

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"You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future."

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