"Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word."
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"I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world."
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"Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar."
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"No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them."
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"This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."
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"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
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"An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet."
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"History is not history unless it is the truth."
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"Sin writes histories, goodness is silent."
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"It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born."
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"You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!"
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"There is no life that does not contribute to history."
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"Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate."
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"We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans."
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"History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man."
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"Sitting at the table doesn’t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what’s on that plate. Being here in America doesn’t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn’t make you an American."
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"We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their 'proper sphere.' The proper sphere for all human beings is the largest and highest which they are able to attain to."
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"You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall."
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"Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be."
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"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."
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