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" Legend remains victorious in spite of history. "

Sarah Bernhardt

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" Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. "

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" As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty. "

" For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

" There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. "

Claude Vorilhon

" 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. "

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" There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. "

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