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"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."
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"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."
"The Beetle's body, whether it be a '49 split or a '73 Jeans Bug, or an '03 Mexican, was originally conceived in the mid 1930's. This is evident in it's body styling which aside from it's rear engine layout and absence of front radiator (or radiator!) grille, is very similar to other cars of the same period. Believe it or not, in those days streamlining was a hot new concept, kind of like how wireless networking is today with computing.The only problem was, in the beginning they didn't seem to realize that streamlining ought to be applied sideways as well as longitudinally!"
"The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary."
"Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war."
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
"It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and ears open and who likes to talk. It always worked. It was no use asking men; they simply were not interested enough in other people and the ordinary doings of people. That is why the real historians of Africa had always been the grandmothers, who remembered the lineage and the stories that went with it."
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"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."
"All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence."
"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."
"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."
"The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood."
"When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."
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