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Terry Hands

"We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise."

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"We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise."

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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

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"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

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"The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present."

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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

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"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."

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Amber Hurdle

"Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76,000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth."

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"Adolf Hitler! Ken, it makes me furious. Forty million people die to defeat that megalomaniac, and he's the star of the first broadcast to another civilization? He's representing us. And them. It's that madman's dream come true."

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Amber Hurdle

"We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed."

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Amber Hurdle

"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

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"We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise."
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