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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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There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.
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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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Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap.
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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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For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
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In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
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History is, indeed, an argument without end.
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Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
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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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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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History is full of surprises.
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Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
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Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
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It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future.
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The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible mixed economy, thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.
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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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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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