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"This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition."
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"Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so."
Judgment
"Remarks are not literature."
Literature
"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."
Art
"The thing that differentiates man from animals is money."
Money
"There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more."
Life
"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting."
Nature
"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."
Beginning
"I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go."
Fun
"Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money."
Money
"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."
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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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"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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"The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself."
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"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."
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"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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"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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"What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
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"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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"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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"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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