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Quote by Karl Marx
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if i

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. – Karl Marx

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Mens ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state. – Karl Marx

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Men
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. – Karl Marx

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Health
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One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. – Albert Schweitzer

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For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, you dont build that. – Rand Paul

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley

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A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life. – Allen Johnson, The Historian and Historical Evidence

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Every time I see something terrible, its like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way. – Ralph Nader

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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (www.samueljohnson.com/

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I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream. – Emilio Estevez

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