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From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. Well all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. – Jon Meacham

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The attacks of September 11 – and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas – embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. – Jon Meacham

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Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. – Jon Meacham

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Part of what I loved – and love – about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. Im interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. Im interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books. – Jon Meacham

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In history people dressed much better than we do today. – Vivienne Westwood

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. – Warren Buffett

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The historian reports to us, not events themselves, but the impressions they have made on him. – Heinrich von Sybel

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And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. – Carter G. Woodson

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All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial. – Alva Myrdal

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The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance. – Steve Perry

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We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. – Thomas Carlyle

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We believe that according the name investors to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic. – Warren Buffett

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