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"Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!"

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"Yet despite...accommodations with commerce, Möser regarded the market as primarily a threat--to the artisanal citizens of the town, to the traditional wants of the peasantry, and to the political stru..."

- Jerry Z. Muller

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"The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation."

- Alice Miller

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