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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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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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I dont want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didnt go out that night. What youre doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history. – Seann William Scott

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[T]he Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. – Thomas Carlyle, Characteristics

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The upward course of a nations history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. – Queen Elizabeth II

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