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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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Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, What happened? but rather, How then shall I live? And its only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins. – Jonathan Sacks

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Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. – Robert Orben

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History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right. – George H. W. Bush

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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. – Eugene V. Debs

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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. – George Washington

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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. – Eugene Ionesco

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I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world. – Frank B. Kellogg

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