History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.

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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. — James A. Baldwin

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. - KARL MARX

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If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. - MICHAEL CRICHTON

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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. — George Orwell

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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.- J. K. Rowling

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