The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. - ERNEST DIMNET

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For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

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I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget. — George W. Bush

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Quit thinking about what Bobby Lee's gonna do to us and start thinking about what we're going to do to him.

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Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so forth. - Cornel West

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If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. - MICHAEL CRICHTON

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Failure is impossible.

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I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism. - Bobby Seale

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History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

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