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When you kill one enemy, you then must plan for the one hundred enemies you have now created. No enemy ever stands alone. He comes with a mother and father, brothers and sisters. He has a wife and children, friends and neighbors. When you kill this enemy, you must be ready to face the angry revenge that comes from the grief of this loss for all the people who knew and loved this man. The only way to stop this endless chain of enemy killing enemy is to forgive it. And in doing so, teach each one that life is the most important, precious and valuable thing.: Anwarshah Anwary, Freedom-A Journey Through Afghanistan-The Anwarshah Anwary Story
History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables
The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.: James Geary, The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.: Fidel Castro (1927 - )
We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club
It is kind of strange watching your personal history become costume.: gadgetgirl, gadgetgirl, 07-25-07
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.: Whitney Griswold, Address to students at Phillips Academy, 1952
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), Day of Affirmation address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech, House of Commons, May 2, 1935
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