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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Biography
Type: Historian
Nationality: American
Born: November 5, 1885
Died: November 7, 1981

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