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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradit

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. – Henry James

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One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. – Louis Gottschalk, Understanding History

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No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948. – Alan Dershowitz

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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself. – Ken Kesey

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History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. – Johan Huizinga

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The world is not dialectical — it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. – Jean Baudrillard

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It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-tre –but still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to it –the stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. Thats why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else. – Vivien Leigh

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