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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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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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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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Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
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Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.
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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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The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
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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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