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Quotes by Historian
"The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs."
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"The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government."
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"In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train."
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"All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."
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"The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way."
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"There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control."
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"As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports."
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"The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information."
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"We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes."
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"Do not forget to tell your daughters God made them beautiful."
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"Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law."
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"Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives."
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"Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?"
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"It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help."
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"Rome was great in arms, in government, in law."
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"Reading your own material aloud forces you to listen."
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"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
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"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still."
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"This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible."
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"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness."
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"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."
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"Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate."
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"Without drive you will never get anywhere in life."
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"Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly."
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"I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being."
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"Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy."
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"In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs."
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"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."
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