Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

Karl Marx

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I don't care what is written," Meyer Landsman says. "I don't care what supposedly got promised to some sandal-wearing idiot whose claim to fame is that he was ready to cut his own son's throat for the sake of a hare-brained idea. I don't care about red heifers and patriarchs and locusts. A bunch of old bones in the sand. My homeland is in my hat. It's in my ex-wife's tote bag.

Michael Chabon

Tags: history identity home religion self-reliance jewish nationality



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Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Gregory Maguire

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History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.

Carter G. Woodson

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History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Thomas Jefferson

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Nothing of importance happened today.

King George III

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The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Charles Baudelaire

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The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

Winston S. Churchill

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History is written by the winners.

Napoléon Bonaparte

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Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Mahatma Gandhi

Tags: history war weapons europe england armies asia conquest great-britain india strategies uk



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