Quote by Doris Lessing
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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In university they dont tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. – Doris Lessing

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Learning
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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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Truth
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that nothing succeeds like success. – Doris Lessing

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Success
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History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler. – Henry Glassie

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History

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country – this music contained the real history of the people of this country. – Jackson Browne

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History

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. – Bill Moyers

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To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if youre not aware of that when youre a child, the whole tradition is lost. – Joyce Carol Oates

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History

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With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot. – Jam Master Jay

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The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. – Paul McCartney

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Death

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead. – John le Carre

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War

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Speaking