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"The tragedy about history - personally and globally - is that while we may learn it we rarely learn from it."
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"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."
"There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said."
"And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again."
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"Odd how we focus on studying wars at at school to form our 'education'. No wonder we know so little about making and forging peace as adults."
"While there may be many things in life you wish to harvest not every seed you plant will grow."
"Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on."
"See life for what it is - a blessing to be lived - rather than what is so often reduced to, a problem to be fixed."
"Life will teach or beat you all you need to know. My advice take the compassionate class and peaceful path."
"Nothing in life is a foregone conclusion unless and until it is foregone and concluded."
"It's is not enough just to follow your heart. Use it in every breath and in each step. Meet and greet everyone with it. Put it into all you do, every dish you eat and all you create. Then your life and those of those you come into contact with will be truly rich - beyond material and transient things."
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