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"Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance."	M. I. Abramowitz
"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."	Woody Allen
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."	Maya Angelou
"For Africa to me … is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."	Maya Angelou
"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it."	Jean Anouilh
"Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past."	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history."	Corazón Cojuangco Aquino
"Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months."	Oren Arnold
"History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology."	Wystan Hugh Auden
"May it not be that, just as we have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that faith is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"	Wystan Hugh Auden
"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."	Sir Francis Bacon
"The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."	Walter Bagehot
"The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle."	Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
"Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world."	Dave Barry
"In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home."	Dave Barry
"All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any."	Carl Lotus Becker
"As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in."	Edward Bedore
"Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep."	Mark Beltaire
"Strike from mankind the principle of faith and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep."	Mark Beltaire
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George William Curtis	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	Gerald Jampolsky
Gerald R. Ford	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Gustave Flaubert
Hans Albrecht Bethe	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Alfred Kissinger
Henry St. John Bolingbroke	Herbert Butterfield	Herb Brody
Hubert H. Humphrey	H. Jackson Brown	H. R. Haldeman
I Ching	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	James Joyce
Jan Glidewell	Jeane J. Kirkpatrick	Jean Anouilh
Jean Bodin	Jean de La Bruyère	Jean Genet
Jim	John Greenleaf Whittier	John Milton
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John Van de Kamp	John W(illiam) Gardner	John W. Hanley
Joseph Conrad	Joseph Joubert	Kahlil Gibran
Karl Marx	Ken Lancaster	Leonard L. Levinson
Lewis Mumford	Lillian Hellman	Lord Billingsley
Lyndon Baines Johnson	L. Thomas Holdcroft	Madame Chiang
Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Margaret Mead	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Mark Beltaire
Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Bertone
Maxim Gorky	Maya Angelou	May-lin Soong Chiang
Michael Cibenko	Miguel de Cervantes	Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
Milton Friedman	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	M. I. Abramowitz
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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev	Nikos Kazantzakis	Noam Chomsky
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Oscar Wilde	Oswald Mosley	Peter Handke
Philip Guedalla	Philip Howard	Phyllis Bottome
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Reinhold Niebuhr	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert	Robertson Davies	Robert Anson Heinlein
Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Green Ingersoll	Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole
Robert Lee Frost	Russell Hoban	R. D. Laing
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Sir John Buchan	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Stephen R. Covey
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Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh	Vernon Cooper	Victor Hugo
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