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— Henry Adams"As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman."
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When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy, but as the time when the peoples of the world first came to take one another seriously.
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