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"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."
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"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue..."
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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great."
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"Robbing people of their actual history is the same as robbing them of part of themselves. It's a crime."Fuka-Eri thought about that for a moment.Tengo went on, "Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves."
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"Mankind, not womankind, has slaughtered more humans in the name of God and Religion than for any other reason."
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"The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it."
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"By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept, Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare, To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare, The shaft we raise to them and thee."
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"It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat."
Man
"The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level."
Time
"Insults are the business of the court."
Business
"It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts."
Cultural
"We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems."
Time
"In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works."
People
"An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers."
Reading
"I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle."
Life
"One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages."
Diversity
"History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself."
History
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