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He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have hi

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. – Lech Walesa

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being. – Lech Walesa

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Change
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I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray. – Lech Walesa

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Freedom
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Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go. – Lech Walesa

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strength
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My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness werent created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. – Camille Paglia

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History

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon

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History
[H]istory gives answers only to those who know how to ask questions. – Hajo Holborn, History and the Humanities

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History

Libraries are not made, they grow. – Augustine Birrell

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History

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