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“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln
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“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.”

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Author:Joseph Addison
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“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

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Author:Alexander Graham Bell
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“The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.”

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Book:Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time
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“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

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Author:Babe Ruth
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“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

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Book:Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest
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“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi
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“Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.”

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Book:Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance
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“No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.”

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Author:Althea Gibson
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“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.”

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Book:The History of Early Rome
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“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.”

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Author:Will Durant
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“History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.”

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Book:Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More
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