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Quotes by Historian
"Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business."
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"It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism."
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"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment."
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"Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment."
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"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."
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"The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority."
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"Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside."
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"In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli."
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"Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war."
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"We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship."
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"There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30."
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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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"I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today."
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"It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one."
Man,
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"On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and thought of a name for me. His first son was called Daniel, and Samuel in memory of one of his forefathers."
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"Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising."
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"When I was a child of six or seven my father would show me the chapter in the prophet Isaiah where the name Immanuel is found; more than once he spoke to me of the faith he put in me."
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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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"The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally."
War,
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"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard."
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"Art is the creation of beauty; it is the expression of thought or feelingin a form that seems beautiful or sublime, and therefore arouses in us some reverberation of that primordial delight which woman gives to man, or man to woman."
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"Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other."
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"Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation."
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"Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training."
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"The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development."
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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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"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."
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"Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library."
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"And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world."
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