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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive or who had ever been alive.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity by definition is unassailable.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious ,one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense once hate is gone they will be forced to deal with pain.
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
