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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
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
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
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People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.
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The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
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Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
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History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
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Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
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In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
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I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938.
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The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible mixed economy, thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.
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There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
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Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
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History is full of surprises.
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