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"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it."
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"What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating."
Excess
"Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way."
Propaganda
"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it."
History
"A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it."
Genius
"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence."
Intelligence
"Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God."
Beauty
"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life."
Life
"I like reality. It tastes like bread."
Reality
"Things are beautiful if you love them."
Love
"Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write."
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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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"Mankind have a little corrupted nature, for they were not born wolves, and they have become wolves; God has given them neither cannon of four-and-twenty pounders, nor bayonets; and yet they have made cannon and bayonets to destroy one another."
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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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