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And History will smile to think that this is the species for which

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. – Julien Benda

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Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace. – Julien Benda

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Fear
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I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning mans future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. – Julien Benda

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Future
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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. – Albert Camus

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History

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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History

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. – Ronald Reagan

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God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended. – David Wilkerson

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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. – T. S. Eliot

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The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs. – Alphonse Toussenel

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Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. – Denis Diderot

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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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