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"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."	Thomas Jefferson
"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
"Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts."	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians."	Franklin P. Jones
"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."	Joseph Joubert
"History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awaken."	James Joyce
"If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success."	John Van de Kamp
"What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation."	Nikos Kazantzakis
"Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present."	Bill Keane
"The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts."	Sir Arthur Keith
"Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith-a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity."	George Frost Kennan
"The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning."	George Frost Kennan
"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder." (To Canadian Parliament)"	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Hubert H. Humphrey	H. Jackson Brown	H. R. Haldeman
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
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Leonard L. Levinson	Lewis Mumford	Lillian Hellman
Lord Billingsley	Lyndon Baines Johnson	L. Thomas Holdcroft
Madame Chiang	Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Margaret Mead	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
Mark Beltaire	Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.
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May-lin Soong Chiang	Michael Cibenko	Miguel de Cervantes
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Peter Handke	Philip Guedalla	Philip Howard
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Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert	Robertson Davies
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