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"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."
People
"As usual, I shall tell my story badly; and you, as usual, will think me extravagant."
Expression
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
Man
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it."
Motivation
"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."
Age
"He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm."
Life
"I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher."
Learning
"The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life."
Life
"Few people have the imagination for reality."
Imagination
"It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them."
Friendship
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"Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."
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Personal Development
"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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Personal Development
"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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