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Nostalgia is a seductive liar, evoking bowdlerized pictures of times past with all the shadows painted out.

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History is filled with undistinguished leaders who succeeded because they had a flair for selecting sound counselors.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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George W. Ball

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Born: December 21, 1909
Died: May 26, 1994 (aged 84)
Bio: George Wildman Ball was an American diplomat and banker. He served in the management of the State Department from 1961 to 1966 and is remembered most as the only major dissenter against the escalation of the Vietnam War.

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