"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke."

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

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"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."

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"If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!"

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"The good thing about the aristocracy " German or English " was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought."

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"Throughout the human history millions have died because of the kings and the queens, because of the presidents and the prime ministers, because of the Caesars and the duces, because of all these little charlatans with big ego!"

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"An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Green Inferno was the truth, everything can be saw, how we were in the privous centuries, how did we survive and many other interesting stuff.So do you have the guts?"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

"We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes."

"History shows us that people often make mistakes, they give wrong decisions, they vote for the wrong persons! And history also shows us that in the end they pay a heavy price for it!"

"If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!"

"The good thing about the aristocracy " German or English " was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought."

"Throughout the human history millions have died because of the kings and the queens, because of the presidents and the prime ministers, because of the Caesars and the duces, because of all these little charlatans with big ego!"

"An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong."

"Green Inferno was the truth, everything can be saw, how we were in the privous centuries, how did we survive and many other interesting stuff.So do you have the guts?"

Explore more quotes by Max Eastman

"A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go."

"People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo."

"Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together."

"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."

"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."

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