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"Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most."
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"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
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"This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always been our dearest hope. Your too sudden passion is made up of spite and necessity."
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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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"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
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"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."
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"What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!"
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"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip."
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"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."
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"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation."
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"The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube."
Creativity
"Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle."
Fashion
"Alimony is the curse of the writing class."
Finance
"There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be."
Sex
"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
Art
"Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment."
Sentimentality
"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."
Growth
"With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance."
Power
"America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind."
People
"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses."
Man
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