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History is full of surprises.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: October 15
Died: 2007
Died: February 28
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Columbus
Ohio
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
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Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).
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What higher obligation does a President have than to explain his intentions to the people and persuade them that the direction he wishes to go is right?
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
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Total separation of church and state was considered the best safeguard for the health of each. As [Andrew] Jackson explained, in refusing to name a fast day, he feared to 'disturb the security which religion now enjoys in this country, in its complete separation from the political concerns of the General Government.'
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There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
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The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
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Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
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If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.
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Science and Technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
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The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.
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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
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I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.
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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
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Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.
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For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life.
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