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Historian Of The Modern Age Inspirational Quotes (513)

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One friend in a life-time is much two are many three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Adams
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Henry Adams
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Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.
Howard Zinn
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History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.
Howard Zinn
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Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.
A. J. P. Taylor
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As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth.
Efraim Zuroff
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A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.
Henry Adams
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Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Henry Steele Commager
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What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but who is sitting in - and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.
Howard Zinn
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The idea that any personal deity could find pleasure or profit in torturing a poor woman, by accident, with a fiendish cruelty known to man only in perverted and insane temperaments, could not be held for a moment. For pure blasphemy, it made pure atheism a comfort.
Henry Adams
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Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class and the other Southern colonies, except North Carolina, were on the whole similar to Virginia in these respects.
Carl L. Becker
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I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.
Howard Zinn
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One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
Henry Adams
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Our best people don't go into politics.
Henry Steele Commager
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The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.
Henry Adams
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While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of rags to riches were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.
Howard Zinn
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That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true work and whiskey were his stimulants work was a form of vice but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.
Henry Adams
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All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.
C. V. Wedgwood
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When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.
Howard Zinn
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True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.
Jacob Burckhardt
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The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
Henry Adams
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Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.
Howard Zinn
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A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams
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