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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.
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
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Columbus
Ohio
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
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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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History is full of surprises.
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The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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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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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
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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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It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.
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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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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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There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
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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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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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The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
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