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"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."	A. Whitney Griswold
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."	Abba Eban
"What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way."	Abraham Lincoln
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."	Adolf Hitler
"History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God."	Albert Camus
"I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers."	Albert Camus
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."	Albert Einstein
"The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power."	Albert Camus
"History only exists, in the final analysis, for God."	Albert Camus
"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"Historian: A broad-gauge gossip."	Ambrose Bierce
"History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."	Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
"This ONLY is denied God: The power to undo the past."	Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
"Get rid of imagined guilt. You did the best you could at the time, all things considered. If you made mistakes, learn to accept that we are all imperfect. Only hindsight is 20-20. If you are convinced that you have real guilt, consider professional or spiritual counseling (with a competent and trustworthy counselor). If you believe in God a pastor can help you believe also in God's forgiveness."	Amy Hillyard Jensen
"One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life."	Anatole France
"One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life."	Anatole France
"In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future."	André Gide
"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."	André Maurois
"Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the machinery of human relations. Class never makes excuses. It takes its lumps and learns from past mistakes. Class bespeaks an aristocracy unrelated to ancestors or money. Some extremely wealthy people have no class at all, while others who are struggling to make ends meet are loaded with it. Class is real. You can't fake it. Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not attempt to look better by making others look worse. Everyone is comfortable with the person who has class because he is comfortable with himself. If you have class, you've got it made. If you don't have class, no matter what else you have, it won't make up for it."	Ann Landers
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Marcus Tullius Cicero	Margaret Mead	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
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Peter Handke	Philip Guedalla	Philip Howard
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Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole	Robert Lee Frost	Russell Hoban
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