"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."

History, Beauty

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"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."

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"Dr. Rex Curry, the professor and attorney from Florida, has debated and largely proven the unavoidable evidence that Hitler's National Socialism was significantly influenced by Bellamy's 'nationalistic' form of 'socialism.' Curry is famous for making the claim that Hitler adopted the 'stiff-arm salute' from Francis and Edward Bellamy."

A.E. Samaan, American Author

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"But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy."

Bernhard von Bulow, German Statesman

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"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."

Pierre Schaeffer, French Composer

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"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."

Pierre Bayle, French Philosopher

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"The Beetle's body, whether it be a '49 split or a '73 Jeans Bug, or an '03 Mexican, was originally conceived in the mid 1930's. This is evident in it's body styling which aside from it's rear engine layout and absence of front radiator (or radiator!) grille, is very similar to other cars of the same period. Believe it or not, in those days streamlining was a hot new concept, kind of like how wireless networking is today with computing.The only problem was, in the beginning they didn't seem to realize that streamlining ought to be applied sideways as well as longitudinally!"

Christina Engela, South African Author

History, Design, Innovation, Creativity

"The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"The history of man is a must read poetry."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

History, Man, Poetry, Knowledge

"Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

History, Literary, Will, Word

"The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods."

Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author

History, Giving

"Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."

Love

"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."

Language

"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."

Biography

"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."

History

"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."

Writing

"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."

Athens

"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."

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"But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy."

"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."

"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."

"The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary."

"The history of man is a must read poetry."

"Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word."

"The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods."

"Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war."

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"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."

"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."

"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."

"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."

"If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average."

"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."

"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."

"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."

"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past."

"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."