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

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If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia. – Ron Fournier

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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. – Walt Whitman

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[W]hen a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. – Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History

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I think people in general have neglected to learn about history. – Maynard James Keenan

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The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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