"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."

History, Man, Prison

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"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."

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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."

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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..."

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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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"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."

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