"Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here."

History, Memory, Time, Presence

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"Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here."

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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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"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the opportunity to be a master, if such an opportunity presents or had presented itself."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Most of Jesus' life is told through the four Gospels of the New Testament, known as the Canonical gospels, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These are not biographies in the modern sense but accounts with allegorical intent. They are written to engender faith in Jesus as the Messiah and the incarnation of God, and not to provide factual data about Jesus's life. This left the door of exaggeration open. And through that door all kinds of mystical non-sense crept in and made place right alongside the good philosophical teachings of Jesus."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

History, Guilt, Cruelty, Confession, Humanity

"It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."

George Eliot, British Author

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"There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list."

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"What if reality is nothing but some disease?"

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"Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here."

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"Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship."

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