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James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare– but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them. – James Baldwin

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There is a sanctity involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it. – James Baldwin

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A year is an eternity in politics – though less than a moment in history. – Eliot Spitzer

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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. – Jacques Chirac

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. – Virginia Woolf

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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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Its plain hokum. If you cant convince em, confuse em. Its an old political trick. But this time it wont work. – Harry S. Truman

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I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that Im getting older, I realized that Im walking even closer with my God. – Andy Griffith

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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. – Rita Mae Brown

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