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| A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. |
| by Washington Irving |
| Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history. |
| by Plato |
| Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. |
| by Robert F. Kennedy |
| Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure. |
| by Thomas Erskine |
| It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. |
| by Henry Ford |
| The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. |
| by Aldous Huxley |
| The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. |
| by William E. Borah |
| A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. |
| by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. |
| by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| ...Insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. If there will be a 'revolution' in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism. We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression. |
| by Noam Chomsky |
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