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"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
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"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."
"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."
"The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."
"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."
"History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!"
"If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!"
"The good thing about the aristocracy " German or English " was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought."
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"Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community."
"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."
"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."
"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
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