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They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of read more
They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will read more
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
[They can] shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.
 I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I 
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.  
 I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I 
think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples. 
History is written by the victors.
History is written by the victors.
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as read more
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.