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"In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down."
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"Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world."
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"In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain."
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
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"Our aadivasi sisters and brothers have played a paramount role in the freedom struggle. For hundreds of years, people across villages of the country kept alive the flame of sacrifices for attaining independence. They left no stone unturned in helping India attain freedom."
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"All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
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"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
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"The opportunity of studying history, is the opportunity to experience empathy."
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"Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that makes all things new."
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"I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary."
Age
"I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection."
Fool
"I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music."
Music
"Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music."
Food
"I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist."
Artist
"When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created."
Art
"I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women."
Music
"I think historically America has been pretty tolerant. It seems when there's a mass influx from one place, that's when it becomes problematic for Americans."
America
"Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life."
Life
"When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked."
Money
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