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Quotes by Historian
"The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists."
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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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"Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?"
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"The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward."
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"Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success."
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"Blinker Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy."
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"Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet."
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"England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last."
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"The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for."
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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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"In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own, and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves."
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"Use your hater to make you greater!"
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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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"These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle."
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"Lazy people live lonely lives."
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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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"His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw."
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"In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss."
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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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"The real failure is not the one who falls down, it's the one who refuses to get up."
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"The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry."
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"Observe the eyes, for they are the windows to her soul."
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"In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain."
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"Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom."
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"Added to the shock of the routine violation of their bodies was the trauma of having to relinquish their children to unknown slave-holders. [W.E.B.] Du Bois considered this physical, mental, and spiritual abuse of black women--with its inevitable result being the destruction of the traditional African family--the highest crime committed by slave-holders and the one thing for which he said he could not forgive them."
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"The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs."
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"No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little."
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"He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience."
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"There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand."
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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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"Getting married is easy, having sex is easier, but findings someone who can stimulate your mind and make love to your soul, that is rare."
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"Never pay attention to someone who has not earned your respect."
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"Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category."
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"He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea."
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