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To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your histor

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesnt matter. – V. S. Naipaul

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World history is a court of judgment. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. – Leopold von Ranke, History of the Popes

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You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. Im innocent. Youve got to believe Im innocent. If you dont, take my job. – Richard M. Nixon

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Libraries are not made, they grow. – Augustine Birrell

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