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Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.: Murray Edelman, _Politics as Symbolic Action_, p. 1

Results from Poor Man's College:

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.: Hendrik W. Van Loon
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present.: Lawrence K. Frank
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.: Kirk Douglas
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast.: Albert Cooper
There is a history in all men's lives.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

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