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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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Arthur Meier 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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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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There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
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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 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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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
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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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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
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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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The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.
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The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
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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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