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"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."
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"You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."

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"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."

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"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."
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