Doris Lessing's Quote - September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history o

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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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When theres a war, people get married. – Doris Lessing

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When youre young you think that youre going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. – Doris Lessing

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We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. – Doris Lessing

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History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. – Paul Eldridge, Maxims for a Modern Man

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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. – A. J. P. Taylor

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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. – Walter Bagehot

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The Marine Corps is the Navys police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalins. – Harry S. Truman

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Running is like mouthwash; if you can feel a burn, its working. – Anonymous

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The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness. – Aisha Tyler

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. – Thomas Carlyle

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Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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