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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
Ohio
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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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History is full of surprises.
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
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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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For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
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History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
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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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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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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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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
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In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
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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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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
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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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The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.
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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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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
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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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