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		Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joseph Brodsky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karl Marx
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Irving R. Kaufman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mahatma Gandhi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Malcolm Gladwell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		History is more interesting than most people think.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tansy Rayner Roberts
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hans Jonas
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barry McGee
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dan Brown
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kate Williams
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		As a philosopher sympathetic to Foucault recently remarked to me, Foucault failed in each of his major inquiries and, in desperation, went further afield from his areas of expertise. The History of Sexuality is a disaster. Page after page is sheer fantasy, unsupported by the ancient or modern historical record.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Camille Paglia
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Washington in the summer is a never-ending stream of tour groups and packs of students, here to swarm the monuments, stroll the National Mall, and learn about our nation's history and government.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kristen Soltis Anderson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Tremendous teammate, that's what comes to mind when I think of Scottie Pippen. He was a very caring teammate who was always concerned about the team, always concerned about it. He just had a great understanding of the team concept. Everyone talks about a great teammate, but he really was a great guy to play with. He may have been having a 25 or 30-point game, but if he knew you were struggling, he'd find a way to get you going as well. He's that type of guy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				B. J. Armstrong
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jairam Ramesh
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Lette me stande to the maine chance.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Lyly
			
		
	
	
	 
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		Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joseph Brodsky