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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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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. – Salman Rushdie

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Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life. – Stephen Ambrose

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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. – Douglas MacArthur

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There arent just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. Its our evolutionary history. – James Lovelock

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. – Joan Didion

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