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Quotes by Historian
"Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances."
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"In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image and dream of themselves, and he had no great regard for human life, or womanly tears."
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"No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past."
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"Read to lead in order to succeed."
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"Even his own speeches bored him."
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"The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture."
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"A righteous husband is a responsible husband."
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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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"Experience has ceded to a series of happenings, about which the most we can expect is information."
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"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago."
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"I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig."
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"He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within."
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"Never mind your happiness do your duty."
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"I may not be where I want to be but I'm thankful for not being where I used to be."
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"The one who cannot see your vision will be blinded by your mission."
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"We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman."
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"The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force."
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"As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action."
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"But which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales."
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"The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take."
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"So long as large armies go to battle, so long will the air arm remain their spearhead."
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"In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game."
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"Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced."
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"Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success."
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"It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat."
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"Invest in the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life."
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"I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer."
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"You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed."
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"As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind."
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"I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam."
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"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
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