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Quotes by Historian
"They resented the patronage they depended upon."
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"White is not always light and black is not always dark."
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"Rome was great in arms, in government, in law."
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"Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs."
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"When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment."
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"I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy."
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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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"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance."
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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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"A good woman is a pleasured treasure."
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"The individual succumbs but he does not die if he has left something to mankind."
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"The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major."
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"Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be."
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"You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history."
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"Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing."
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"The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash."
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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."
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"Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second."
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"It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble."
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"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated."
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"Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence."
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"I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard."
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"There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that."
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"It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic."
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"Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did."
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