"Only ideals are dangerous."

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“Cultures and societies consumed each other, as well as animals and men.”

“It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment.”

“There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history.”

“But then history was made by fools.”

“Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.”

“I am rebelling against imprisonment, I am rebelling against tyranny of the mind, I am rebelling against a collection of machines with interchangeable faces. Above all, I am rebelling against my own ignorance and your deliberate deception.”

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— Mikhail Gorbachev

Politics1921–1981

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"My countrymen, though not in any partisan sense, I must speak of the services of the men and women who rallied to the colors of the Republic in the World War. America realizes and appreciates the serv…"

— Warren G. Harding

Politics1921–2005

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"He went from Shahabad to Nakhna where Sultan Sikandar was encamping. His mission was to personally remind the Sultan of the kingly duties and exert his influence over him and his nobles. He also wrote…"

— Abdul Quddus Gangohi

Literature1456–1537

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