"History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience."

-- Claude Bowers

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“No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.”
“That we need only to recognize GOD intimately present with us, to address ourselves to Him every moment, that we may beg His assistance for knowing His will in things doubtful, and for rightly performing those which we plainly see He requires of us, offering them to Him before we do them, and giving Him thanks when we have done.”
“Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.”
“Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment.”
“It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.”
“As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.”
“Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.”
“Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.”

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