"There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours."

Time, Ideas, Values, Actors

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"There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours."

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

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"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

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"Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in that fact, one day before my birthday will come, one day before I will finish... (So far one day is popular... that's a fact called itself zipf law... )...Call it how you want, but for my it's zipfy law!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces."

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"There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours."

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"The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War."

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"The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake."

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"We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour."

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"It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching."

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"There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills."

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"But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich."

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"But it cannot follow that because weapons and troops are now being deployed we are bound to go to war."

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"Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves."

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"History provides no precise guidelines."

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