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Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.

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Alex Haley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 11
Died: 1992
Died: February 10
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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Alexander M. P. Haley
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Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
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Brown people wouldn't speak to someone who was black.
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Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.
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