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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. – James A. Garfield

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All history is incomprehensible without Christ. – Ernest Renan

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The idea of history in any age, like the idea of property, or of progress, is an unstable compound; it is put together as needed, by historians or by philosophers, out of the irreconcilable opinions of men. – F. Smith Fussner, The Historical Revolution

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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. – Douglas MacArthur

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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard. – Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), translated from French

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