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Quote by Anatole France
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole F

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. – Anatole France

Other quotes by Anatole France

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. – Anatole France

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Courage
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Anatole France
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The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

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Greed
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Anatole France
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History
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I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest were going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate thats not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives. – Stephen Harper

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History

History never looks like history when you are living through it. – John W. Gardner

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History

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black mans right to his body, or womans right to her soul. – Emma Goldman

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History

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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History

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A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community. – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. – Denis Diderot

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Where do you think Id be next week if I didnt know how to shout and holler and make the public take notice? Id be poor and Id probably be down in my home town, washing windows or running an elevator and saying – Muhammad Ali

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