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“Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan... We will gain the inevitable triumph so help us God.”

“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.”

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Book:Decision Points

Source: Decision Points

“If we have no other reality beyond the illusion, you too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.”

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Author:Luigi Pirandello

“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.”

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Author:Robert E. Lee

“The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into the yesterday of the globe, far less touch the myriads of ages spread out beyond.”

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Book:An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education

Source: An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education

“You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.”

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Book:The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel

Source: The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel