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“We should not, however, fall into the common error of imputing a false parallelism between the two great warrior ideologies.”

“Nazism, for all its revolutionary jargon, represented in its essence a reaction against the nine-teenth-century faith in human progress. It was an attempt to seize history by the collar and frog-march it in a direction determined primaly by the selfish interests and obsessive beliefs of those in power. From the outset it wan an movement, offering its adherents the spurious solidarity of the street gang and the prospecive enjoyment of stolen booty.”

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"There were some schools, so called, but no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond "readin', writin', and cipherin' " to the rule of three. If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happ…"

— Abraham Lincoln

Politics1744–1786

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"“Uasti was a good teacher,” he said. “She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become."

— Tanith Lee

Literature1947–2015

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"Your teachers are always telling you to behave like adults. I wonder if they'd like it if you did. You may be loud and disorganized, but you're very docile compared to adults.... Imagine the reaction …"

— Paul Graham

Literature1892–1985

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