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We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.


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Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.



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What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.



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Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.



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