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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot h

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. – John McCarthy

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It is said that man doesnt live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into. – John McCarthy

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If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments. – John McCarthy

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Attitude
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The slogan was Dont trust anyone over thirty. Sixty years later the slogan became, Dont trust anyone over ninety. – John McCarthy

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History — that little sewer where man loves to wallow. – Francis Ponge

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If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! – George Macaulay Trevelyan

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There arent just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. Its our evolutionary history. – James Lovelock

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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. Its one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldnt live without. – Howard Nemerov

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Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers – the guys who steal all the money and take off. Thats the fun stuff. – John Grisham

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