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History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
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
University Teacher
Columbus
Ohio
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
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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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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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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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Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
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Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.
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The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
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History is full of surprises.
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