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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
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Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
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History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.
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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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Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
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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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History is full of surprises.
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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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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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