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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
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History is full of surprises.
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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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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, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
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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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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 no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
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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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For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
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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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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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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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Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
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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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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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