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God cannot alter the past, but historians can. - Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, but historians can. – Samuel Butler

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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. – Samuel Butler

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Fear
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. – Samuel Butler

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Money
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History
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No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. – Richard M. Nixon

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History

I want to go down in history. – Haile Gebrselassie

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History

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, Uncle Toms Cabin and, in modern drama, Larry Kramers The Normal Heart. – Tony Kushner

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History

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. – Dick Gregory

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History

Random Quotes

He stood looking after them… as though he had perceived that they had come back accompanied by a ghost a-piece. – Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

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Ghosts

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Men

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else. – Mitt Romney

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Home

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity. – Phillips Brooks

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Christianity