"History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts."

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Peter Kuznick

#Facts Quotes #Matter Quotes #Certain Quotes

“I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.”
“The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the history of the past three hundred years to understand by what relentless struggles every right has had to be wrested inch by inch from the despots.”
“Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.”

Source : Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a Dancer”
“I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
“If someone with whom one is having an affair keeps on mentioning some woman whom he knew in the past, however long ago it is since they separated, one is always irritated.”
“The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks.”

Source : "Why did I back Julian Assange? It's about justice and fairness" by Jemima Khan, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.
“America in some ways is much more of a democracy then France. It is and it's not.”

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