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Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

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For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

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An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

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History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

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Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

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Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

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A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

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