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> [There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/there-s-a-lot-we-should-be-able-to-learn-from-history-and-yet-history/)

[A. Whitney Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-whitney-brown/)

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## More by A. Whitney Brown

> [The Baptists believe in The Right to Life before you're born. They also believe in Life After Death, but that is a privilege and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/the-baptists-believe-in-the-right-to-life-before-you-re-born-they/)

[A. Whitney Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-whitney-brown/)

> [The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/the-baptists-basic-theology-is-that-if-you-hold-someone-under-water/)

[A. Whitney Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-whitney-brown/)

> [Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/harry-s-truman-had-his-moods-his-birthplace-is-the-only-tourist/)

[A. Whitney Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-whitney-brown/)

> [There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/there-s-a-lot-we-should-be-able-to-learn-from-history-and-yet-history/)

[A. Whitney Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-whitney-brown/)

> [Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/once-again-decent-citizens-will-be-able-to-enter-this-house-of/)

[A. Whitney Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-whitney-brown/)

> [A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/a-group-of-white-south-africans-recently-killed-a-black-lawyer/)

[A. Whitney Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-whitney-brown/)

> [You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/you-know-you-look-at-the-chaos-in-the-conservative-camp-right-now-it/)

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> [The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/the-bible-says-the-truth-shall-make-you-free-but-let-s-not-forget-it/)

[A. Whitney Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-whitney-brown/)

> [I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/i-think-it-s-time-to-stop-carping-on-the-blunders-of-the-president/)

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> [I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/i-never-joined-but-i-used-to-go-to-church-now-and-then-i-liked-it/)

[A. Whitney Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-whitney-brown/)

> [I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/i-m-not-an-athiest-how-can-you-not-believe-in-something-that-doesn-t/)

[A. Whitney Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-whitney-brown/)

> [The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/the-very-fact-that-the-jaguar-can-become-extinct-while-the-pekingese/)

[A. Whitney Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-whitney-brown/)

> [I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/i-am-not-a-vegetarian-because-i-love-animals-i-am-a-vegetarian/)

[A. Whitney Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-whitney-brown/)

> [I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/i-am-as-frustrated-with-society-as-a-pyromaniac-in-a-petrified-forest/)

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> [Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-whitney-brown/our-bombs-are-smarter-than-the-average-high-school-student-at-least/)

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