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History balances the frustration of

History balances the frustration of “how far we have to go” with the satisfaction of “how far we have come.” It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time. – Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

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Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. – John Terraine

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The history of mens opposition to womens emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself. – Virginia Woolf

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If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. – Dean Kamen

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Serbian history tells that the family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family. – Novak Djokovic

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. – Oscar Wilde

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What way should Victor take in the labyrinth of beauty?— All the sixty-four radii of the compass stretched themselves out as so many fingerposts, and he had sense enough not to propose to himself any particular hour of arriving. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. – Thomas A. Edison

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The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. – James Weldon Johnson

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