"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen."

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"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen."

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"Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."

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"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

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"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."

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Henry Ford, American Businessman

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