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Quotes by Historian
"A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else."
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"In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world."
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"The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty."
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"Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion."
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"The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years."
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"Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them."
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"House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself."
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"Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex."
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"Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams they may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality."
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"The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up."
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"Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom."
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"The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time."
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"Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time."
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"Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease."
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"Little boys run in gangs, grown men organise teams."
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"Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way."
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"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
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"Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine."
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"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
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"Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way."
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"The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable."
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"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."
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"An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety""Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour."
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"Observe the eyes, for they are the windows to her soul."
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"Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one's beloved extended community."
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"William McKinley was a man made to be managed."
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"As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word? A society of people hoping to become politically superior needed first to become spiritually valid."
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"My mind may be sober, but my confidence is high!"
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