"In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history."

History, Mistake, Future, Hope

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"In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history."

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

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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Susan Sontag, American Author

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

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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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."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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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!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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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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"But memory is less disposed to compromise."

Memory

"The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself."

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"I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say."

Struggle

"But above all, in order to be, never try to seem."

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"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."

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"O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!" A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took our word for it? It would have to be fulfilled. Brr...! the water is so cold! But let's reassure ourselves. It's too late now, it will always be too late. Fortunately!"

Fate

"This is the century of fear."

Society

"How did I picture the life after the grave?I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it."

Afterlife

"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."

Willpower

"Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one's fellow man, or merely say evil of one's neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman."

Endurance