"The greatest weariness comes from work not done."
-Eric Hoffer
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"The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.“
-Eric Hoffer
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"When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths."
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"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength."
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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
-Carlos Fuentes
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
-Strom Thurmond
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
-Harry Browne
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
-Claude Vorilhon
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
-Barney Frank
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