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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.
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
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
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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Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
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History is full of surprises.
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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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Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
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There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
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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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There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
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Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
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For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
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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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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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The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.
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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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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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Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
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