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"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process." »Herbert Butterfield
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"I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns." »Jerrold Mundis
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"Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows." »Lao Tse, In a discussion with Confucious about the true nature of humanity.
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