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" History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. "

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" Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. "

" The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. "

" Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often. "

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" The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it. "

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" I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history. "

" The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. "

" Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. "

" Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction. "

" I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win. "

A. Philip Randolph

" No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. "

" Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. "

" I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms. "

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" There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I'll show you a hundred retrogressions. "

" History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. "

George Santayana

" We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. "

" The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. "

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" History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb. "

" The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. "

" Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. "

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