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Quotes by Historian
"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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"God has given you a gift, why not open it?!"
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"Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image."
Art,
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"Arrogance is thinking you are above someone else, Confidence is knowing no one is above you."
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"Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one."
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"Worship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear."
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"Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it."
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"If a man wants his dreams to come true he must wake up."
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"To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault."
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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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"The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence."
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"Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry."
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"We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey."
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"Stupid people will mistake your confidence for arrogance."
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"Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it."
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"The affair made men feel larger than life."
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"William McKinley was a man made to be managed."
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"The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past."
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"At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls."
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"Everything took on the color of blood."
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"Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION."
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"This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind."
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"Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government."
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"When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future."
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"Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection."
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"If she does not respect you, she will replace you."
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"A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight."
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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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"This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold."
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"The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal."
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"History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all."
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"Religious discrimination is not like racial discrimination. One you choose for yourself, the other God chose for you."
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