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This world is a pretty good place under normal conditions, but anyone who’s read Russian history knows what a bad place it can be.

— John R. Erickson

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If we didn’t face death, we’d all be useless. Makes us more efficient in the use of our time and appreciative of the time we have.

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

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our 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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