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Quote by Eldridge Cleaver
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven re

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. – Eldridge Cleaver

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The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet. – Eldridge Cleaver

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Heroes/Heroism
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Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt. – Eldridge Cleaver

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America
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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books – but it is terrible when one has to live it. – Jean Anouilh

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History

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history. – Ralph Nader

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History

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. – Walter Bagehot

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History

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. – Winston Churchill

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Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. – Rodney Dangerfield

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Men

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him. – Oscar Wilde

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Would you touch a nettle without being stung by it? take hold of it stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances, and hardly will any thing annoy you. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. – William James, letter to Carl Stumpf, 1886 January 1st

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Procrastination