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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
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“The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.”
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“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
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“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
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[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
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Melanie’s 2025 Year in Books
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