"The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history."

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Source : "The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society". Book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (p. 93), 1993.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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“I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.”
“My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.”
“Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else...”
“... men want recognition of their work, to help them believe in themselves.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1931). “Dawn's Left Hand”
“I just want to be rich and famous.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.”
“The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.”

Source : John Marshall (1974). “The Papers of John Marshall: Correspondence, papers, and selected judicial opinions, March 1814-December 1819”, The University of North Carolina Press
“No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.”

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