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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful,

American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. – James A. Baldwin

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Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. – Dante Alighieri

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Knowledge of history frees us to be contemporary. – Lynn White, Jr.

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[I]t was that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history. – John Toland

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