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Marxists of all people should write autobiographies, because we have a clearer and deeper sense of the relation of personality to history.

— Helena Sheehan

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There is a difference between scatty and systemic thinking, between eclecticism and synthesis, between pluralism and holism, between a ragbag of assorted notions and a coherent and comprehensive worldview.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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