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World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great publ

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man. – Jon Meacham

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If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if ones sexuality is as intrinsic a part of ones identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. – Jon Meacham

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Nature
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Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didnt work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably wont work for you either. – Jon Meacham

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War
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An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. – Jon Meacham

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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization. – Arthur Henderson

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History

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it. – George W. Bush

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History

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing theyre whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever theyve got. I cant possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. – David Cronenberg

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History

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy

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Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. – Sigmund Freud

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I dont know Who — or what — put the question, I dont know when it was put. I dont even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone –or Something –and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. – Dag Hammarskjold

I think a young womans relationship with her father is really important. – Candace Bushnell

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relationship

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles. – Don Marquis

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Age