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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

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Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

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There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.

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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

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History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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History never looks like history when you are living through it.

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