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Quote by Jessamyn West
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. – Jessamyn West

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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. – Jessamyn West

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The history of liberty is a history of resistance. – Woodrow Wilson

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And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. – Carter G. Woodson

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I want to go down in history. – Haile Gebrselassie

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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. – C. S. Lewis

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A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey

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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. – A. E. Housman

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You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult. – Judge Hall

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