"One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots."
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"You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?"
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"Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad."
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"The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . ."
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"Things have never been more like the way they are today in history."
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"For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries."
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"One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general."
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"History is a tragegy, not a morality tale."
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"My people must be tried in all things, that they may be prepared to receive the glory that I have for them."
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"Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history."
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"A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers."
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"A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life."
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"No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others."
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"It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism."
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"I still feel-kind of temporary about myself."
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"When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom."
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"England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it."
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"Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations."
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"There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep."
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"Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality."
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