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Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.
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Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917
Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?
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Howard Zinn
No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.
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Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
The Ten Commandments contain 297 words, the Bill of Rights 463 words, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 266 words. A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
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According to an article in the New York Times
If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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