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"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice."
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"Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need."

"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

"The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America."

"Dr. Rex Curry, the professor and attorney from Florida, has debated and largely proven the unavoidable evidence that Hitler's National Socialism was significantly influenced by Bellamy's 'nationalistic' form of 'socialism.' Curry is famous for making the claim that Hitler adopted the 'stiff-arm salute' from Francis and Edward Bellamy."

"What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority."

"But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy."
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"Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist."


"Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore."


"The Martha Stewart trial makes clear how far women have risen in the business world. America can be proud of our equal-opportunity prosecution and conviction."


"I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks."


"I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences."


"The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc."
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