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Religion . . . is the opium of the people. --- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
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History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that's worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today. --- Henry Ford
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. --- George Bernard Shaw
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History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. --- Leonard Louis Levinson
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. --- Napoleon Bonaparte
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There will probably always be an alientated intelligentsia, especially in intolerant, democratic societies. ---- Robert Conquest, Atlantic Monthly, July/Aug. 2004, 168.
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History is an accumulation of error. --- Norman Cousins, American Editor, 1912-1990.
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Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influecnes our lives does not consist of what actually happened but of what men believe happened. --- Gerald W. Johnson
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It must be obvious to so pathetic an ass as a university professor of history that very few of the genuinely first-rate men of the race have been wholly civilized in the sense that term is employed in the newspapers and in the pulpit . . .
The average woman is not strategically capable of bringing down the most tempting game within her purview, and must thus content herself with a second, third, or nth choice. The only women who get their first choices are those who run in almost miraculous luck and those too stupid to formulate an ideal -- two very small classes, it must be obvious. . .
Practically every woman above the age of 25 has a broken heart. That is to say, she has been vastly disappointed, either by failing to nab some pretty fellow that her heart was set on, or, worse, by actually nabbing him, and then discovering him to be a bounder, an imbecile, or both . . .
The curse of man and the cause of nearly all his woes, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible. He is forever embracing delusions, and each new one is worse than all that have gone before. . .
And for one husband of the Nordic race who maintains a blonde chorus girl in the Oriental luxury around the corner, there are ten thousand who are as true to their wives, year in and year out, as so many convicts in the death-house, and would be no more capable of any such loathsome malpractice, even in the face of free opportunity, than they would be of cutting off the ears of their young. ---- H.L. Mencken, "In Defense of Women," courtesy of Project Gutenberg.