"There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the middle- or late-'70s, the French have been absolutely obsessed with the Vichy regime. They have an institute of contemporary history that turns out first-rate scholarly work. Their textbooks are accurate. Whether the students actually read them is another matter."

-- Robert O. Paxton

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“Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.”
“I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that ***** is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.”
“My first language is both English and Spanish. My mom was raised in Los Angeles, so with her we spoke English, but my father was born in Cuba, so with him we spoke Spanish.”
“The script is a bible and it's this unchangeable document that somebody spent years and years on.”

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“The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.”
“Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.”
“Without bragging, I've been blessed to have five of the greatest statistical years for a running back.”

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“There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.”

Source : Claude Adrien Helvétius (1777). “A Treatise on Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education: A Posthumous Work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with Additional Notes, by W. Hooper, ...”, p.291

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