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Daniel de la Pointe

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“History is written by the victors.”
― Walter Benjamin

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“If you are an Idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

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“Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

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“Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.”
― Walker Percy

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“There's no such thing as gratitude in politics.”
― Graham Greene

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