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

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

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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France

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Books
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The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. – Anatole France

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Equality
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An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able to differentiate between what you know and what you dont. – Anatole France

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Education
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This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. – Francis Bacon

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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. – Robert A. Heinlein

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The Communist regime didnt consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident. – Kathryn Bigelow

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