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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.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: October 15
Died: 2007
Died: February 28
Historian
University Teacher
Columbus
Ohio
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
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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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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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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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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 use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
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In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
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Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
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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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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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History is full of surprises.
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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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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
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What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.
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There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
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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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Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
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The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
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