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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history o

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasnt that terrible. – Doris Lessing

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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. – Doris Lessing

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I think kids ought to travel. I think its very good to carry kids around. Its good for them. Of course its tough on the parents. – Doris Lessing

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Travel
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It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – Doris Lessing

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Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him. – Herbert Hoover

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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The obscurest epoch is today. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains

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