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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage – the union between one man and one woman – has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nations history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now. – Jim DeMint

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The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness. – Jon Meacham

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When you say things like, We have to wipe out the Taliban, what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway. – Arundhati Roy

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Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. – Jacques Yves Cousteau

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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. – Orison Swett Marden

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