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A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a read more
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.
Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, read more
History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers read more
History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions read more
The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
