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It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger tha

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time. – Renata Adler

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Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. – Renata Adler

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Mental Illness
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. – Renata Adler

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History is a great dust heap. – Thomas Carlyle, Obiter Dicta

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I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. Its really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. – Nikki Giovanni

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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. – Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together. – Theodore White

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