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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Suma who wrote (22379)12/8/2004 3:55:43 PM
From: Oeconomicus  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
"Trouble is we aren't around to read about the HISTORY of our current moment."

Won't be? Hey, you're the old one. ;-)

Oh, you mean we can't tell now how history will judge what's going on now. That's true . . . well, I know, but I can't tell you. <g>

"I remember reading how the Senator from West Virginia whose name escapes me... AGAIN... used to get a lot of pork for his State..."

That'd be Byrd.

BTW, more where those came from. Here's another you'll like:

"History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
But what experience and history teach is this — that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
- Georg Hegel

And on a more optimistic note, also from Hegel:

"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom."
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