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[History is a] mixture of error and violence. - Johann Wolfgang vo
[History is a] mixture of error and violence. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. – Edith Sitwell

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

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From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. Well all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. – Jon Meacham

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