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It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence. – Joyce Carol Oates

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There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. – Harry S. Truman

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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. – Vladimir Lenin

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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: President Cant Swim. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. – Edith Sitwell

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I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims. – Timothy Radcliffe

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It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat. – Robert Fuoss

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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. – Arthur C. Clarke

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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. – Joseph Wood Krutch

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