"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."

History, People, Man

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"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."

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"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."

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"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."

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"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."

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"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."

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"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."

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"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."

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"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."

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"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."

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"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity."

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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."

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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."

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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."

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"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."

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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."

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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."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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