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We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our hi

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and weve been in wars ever since. Were not a pacific people. – James Lee Burke

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Without philosophy, history seems to me to be deaf and dumb. – Ferdinand Baur, Symbolik und Mythologic

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It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. – Neale Donald Walsch

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History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies. – Frederick Maurice Powicke, Three Lectures

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Its not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. – Norman Mailer

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