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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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Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative – despite what current ideology says. – Doris Lessing

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I dont think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. – Doris Lessing

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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. – Karl Marx

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War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. – Jane Goodall

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I think people in general have neglected to learn about history. – Maynard James Keenan

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. – Abraham Lincoln

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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. – A.A. Milne

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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. – Aristotle

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Consequences flow from a justices interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with a constitutional guarantee of equality is not simply a contemplative exercise in defining the shape of a just society. It is an order – Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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